INDIANAPOLIS — One of the women involved in the Beech Grove Walmart brawl that was caught on video is now facing charges.
Not for assault, but for engaging her 6-year-old son in the bout.
Amber Stephenson, 34, Indianapolis, was charged Friday with neglect of a dependent and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. According to a probable cause affidavit obtained by TheIndianapolis Star, Stephenson allegedly instigated the fight at the Walmart on the night of June 4.
Court documents state Beech Grove Police were dispatched to the store at 10:32 p.m. on a report of a fight between two women.
Responding officers located the two women in the store’s health and beauty section. Court documents state the altercation had just ended when police arrived, and the women, later identified as Stephenson and Rebecca Mills, were suffering minor injuries.
Officers took initial statements from Stephenson and Mills, as well as Walmart employees and others who witnessed the fight.
Investigators, as stated in the affidavit, have concluded the brawl went down like this:
Mills, seen in the video cruising the store on a motorized scooter, had become upset with one of the Walmart employees for leaving carts filled with merchandise in the aisle. The employee was restocking the shelves for the next day and was using the carts to move products.
As things escalated between Mills and the employee, Stephenson, who allegedly “came out of nowhere” with her 6-year-old son, stops in the aisle and says to Mills: “You must really hate your life.”
Stephenson then leaves the scene but returns minutes later to confront Mills again.
Then what begins as verbal shots traded between the two shoppers intensifies into a fist fight and wrestling match in the aisle.
But Stephenson’s not in hot water for the blows she delivered to Mills. She’s being charged because she ordered her son to “punch (Mills) in her face … punch her in her (expletive) face,” according to the affidavit.
During the skirmish, the child can be seen hitting and kicking Mills in the face and head, court documents state. The child then picks up a shampoo bottle and begins hitting Mills in the face with it.
In a radio interview days after the fight, Stephenson said: “I mean he’s a little crazy kid … he’s one I don’t ever have to worry about being bullied in high school.”
Stephenson’s contributing to the delinquency of a minor charge is only a misdemeanor, but the neglect of a dependent charge is a felony and could lead to jail time if she’s convicted.
In a statement provided to Fox59, Marion County Prosecutor’s office officials said they will not be charging Mills because they were more concerned with the “safety and welfare of the child, not choosing sides in what appears to be a mutually combative situation.”
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Damn! It brings back fond memories of retards responding to the “Blue Light Special” at K-Mart!
Tag team on Black Friday.
FEMA fodder cleanup on aisle 4.
The woman riding around in the handicap cart needs an ass whooping #1. Sounds like the kid is the only hero in this story, he scared me a little when he was coming after the crowd! Hitting a stranger in the face with a shampoo bottle? Way to go. I’ll take him for my side. Pretty good fight overall, lot’s better than that gay MMA crap.
This child needs someone to find out if staying with this mother is in his best interest,there is no doubt she is an awful role model. Is there a father? What does he think of this?
Is there a thumbs down? Who do you suppose should go look after the kid? It’s his lot in life, who are you to say otherwise? You would let your mom take a beating I guess.
Daddy
One word answers most of your questions.
Great WWF-WalMart edition entertainment. If she’s in a “motorized cart”, how could she fight like that? Makes you think she is faking needing the motorized cart. But it could just be a WWF “ROUSE” to lull the victim into having sympathy feelings before tagging her son into the match. Good thing they weren’t in the gun aisle.
All the way through I was rooting for the gal in the fatwagon, especially when the rotten kid hit his own mother in the head with what appears to be a loofah.
Make this kid break rocks, become the next Justin Bieber, whatever penalty, just get him away from the rest of us.