What started as a 5 year old’s birthday party at a Chuck E. Cheese ended with police body camera footage, felony charges, and a 22 year old man in a medically induced coma.

The fight happened Feb. 15 at the Chuck E. Cheese on Monroe Street in Sylvania Township, near Toledo. Witness accounts and police reporting say the confrontation began in a bathroom and then spilled into the restaurant’s play area, where families and children were gathered for the party. Two men, Derrick Jones and Keshawn Fell, were identified by witnesses as the men involved in the fight.

The injured man was identified by family members as the birthday girl’s uncle. He suffered serious injuries, including a broken eye socket, and was placed in an induced medical coma after being taken to the hospital. Family members said children were left terrified as the fight moved through the building.

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The location and timing drove much of the reaction. The party was for a young child, and family members said the fight did not stay isolated near the front or in the bathroom where it started. According to relatives, the men moved through the restaurant while adults tried to shield kids and get them away from the violence.

“All I could do is grab everybody’s kids and try to get them up against the wall and try to get them away from it. It didn’t happen been there at the front door. They literally were running through the whole entire building. And all I could do was think to protect the kids,” the victim’s aunt said.

The birthday girl’s mother, who is also the victim’s sister, described what happened when her brother went down during the incident and the effect it had on the child’s party.

“Because it was my baby’s birthday. I was throwing this for her. Now my baby is traumatized,” she said.

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She also described trying to get a response from her brother after he collapsed.

“My brother collapsed and I grabbed my brother like brother. Please talk to me. Talk to me. I’m here,” she said.

Police later filed charges against both men. Jones was charged with felonious assault. Fell was charged with disorderly conduct tied to an incident at a hospital emergency room after the victim was transported. Authorities did not release additional details on the hospital incident in the initial reporting. Both men pleaded not guilty and were released on bond.

Family members also said they believe a weapon may have been involved in causing the victim’s injuries, but police had not confirmed that at the time of the reports. The broken eye socket injury has been consistently cited across local and national coverage of the case.

One family member also called out the setting of the fight in direct terms, pointing to the fact that it happened inside a venue built for children.

“Like you knew when you went in the bathroom to fight, you knew that this was a kid’s establishment. You knew that. You knew it,” a family member said.

The incident drew wider attention after video clips and follow up coverage began circulating online, but the core facts remained the same across reports: a fight started in the bathroom during a child’s birthday party, moved into the public areas, and left one man hospitalized in critical condition. OutKick’s coverage emphasized the same sequence and cited witness statements from local television reporting in the Toledo area.

Chuck E. Cheese had not publicly responded to requests for comment on security measures in the immediate aftermath, according to local reporting. Law enforcement response footage from Sylvania Township Police was later shown in local coverage documenting the scene and the emergency response.

For now, the criminal case will move forward with Jones and Fell facing separate charges, while the victim’s family deals with the medical aftermath and what relatives described as trauma to the children who were present. The birthday party is over, but the legal and medical fallout is just beginning.

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