York Regional Police have charged four teens with assault causing bodily harm, and a 52-year-old man with assault, after a bloody high school brawl that was caught on video and shared on social media.

At around 3 p.m. on Dec. 2, a group of students gathered in an open area at Briar Nine Park in Oak Ridges, across the street from Cardinal Carter Catholic High School, to watch a fight between two students. One of the students was from Cardinal Carter and the other from St. Theresa Lisieux Catholic High School.

The father of one of the students involved in the fight was present and got into a verbal altercation with another student, which led to the student being assaulted, police say. The father was then assaulted by a group of teen boys and suffered serious injuries, police say.

Police have charged four boys, ages 15, 16, 16 and 18, from Richmond Hill with assault causing bodily harm.

The father, a 52-year-old man from King, Ont., has been charged with assault. Police have not released the names of the people charged “to protect to the identities of the youths and the victims.”

Videos of the fight circulated widely on social media, showing the initial altercation and the assault that followed on a nearby residential street.

One video showed two students throwing rapid punches in an open, grassy area. An older man enters the shot, does not stop the fighting, and then punches a student watching the fight.

A second video shows the same man, with blood dripping from the side of his head and on his shirt, arguing with students by his car on a residential street.

“I thought they were jumping in on him — what would you do if it was your kid,” the man says in the video.

The argument escalates, and the man is shoved, then punched and falls to ground. As he is on the ground, several people kick him.

Police officers have been visiting both high schools of the students involved in the fight and will continue to be available to speak to staff and students while the investigation continues.

Police are asking anyone who witnessed the fight or has information about what lead to it to contact investigators.

All five charged will appear in court in January.

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