VIDEO: Students tased, arrested after fight at Richland Northeast

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The Richland County Sheriff’s Department reports two students at Richland Northeast have been arrested for fighting.

Officials said a 15-year-old and a 16-year-old, who are brothers, have been charged with multiple offenses after assaulting other students and a deputy.

School resource officers responded to a fight in the cafeteria. Deputies attempted to separate the brothers, who were actively involved in a physical altercation with other students.

Neither student listened to the deputies and tried to continue to fight. The school resource officers tased both students and detained them.

The 16-year-old student assaulted a deputy and was charged appropriately according to officials.

Both students are being held at Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center.

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