SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Nearly a week after a parking lot fight and shooting left a man dead outside of a Grant Union High School football game, the school district has released its security plans ahead of Friday night’s game.
According to the Twins Rivers Unified School District, they’ll begin using metal detectors at the Grant Union High vs. Laguna Creek High football game scheduled for Oct. 28. That means all fans who enter the stadium will need to go through the metal detectors.
Bags will be checked and additional searches will be done, if needed.
Other safety protocols include: no backpacks, students 14 and younger who don’t attend Grant Union High must be always accompanied by an adult, and students must carry ID cards.
Anyone who leaves the stadium will not be allowed to return, and any fans engaging in ‘disruptive behavior’ may be escorted off the stadium and school grounds with a possible ban from future sporting events.
“It will deter some kind of violence in some ways. I don’t think people are that foolish enough to walk in with a weapon, but a lot of these people who have guns are not even in the game,” said community advocate Berry Accius, founder of Voice of the Youth.
Police said the shooting occurred after a disturbance involving around 20 people, not believed to be students, sometime before the football game ended.
None of the estimated 2,000 people in the stands watching the game were affected by the violence outside.
Accius added that more needs to be done within the community to stop the violence.
“We just have to be a lot more diligent on taking guns off the streets,” he said. “Like how is our young people getting guns before they’re getting opportunities.”
The victim was identified as 24-year-old Alfred Ayodele Myah. One person has been arrested in connection with the violence leading up to the shooting, however police confirmed for ABC10 that no one has been charged for the homicide as of Thursday night.
