Three arrested for fight during basketball tourney

A brawl involving four out-of state hoopsters at a national basketball tournament held in Elgin over the weekend, ended with three arrests.

On Saturday, Rod-Drequs B.J. King, 19, his brother Justin J. King, 18, and Ryan B. Ford, 17 - all of Fayetteville, N.C. - were each charged with aggravated battery after a beating at the Wildcat National Summer Classic, a five-on-five basketball tournament for boys and girls.

Games were held the entire weekend across the region, locally at the Centre of Elgin, Elgin Community College and Judson University.

The seventh-annual event, organized by the Boys and Girls Club, was expected to draw more than 300 teams from the United States and Canada.

According to police reports, the three teenagers got into a fight with a 17-year-old boy from Racine, Wis., at 1:45 p.m. Saturday after a game ended at Judson.

The Fayetteville teenagers played on the same team, while the Racine boy was waiting for his game to start, police said.

Police could not say what started the fight, but did say that the elder King brother pushed and punched the boy in the face.

The impact from the blow made the boy hit a glass door and he fell on the floor. At that point, Ford and the younger King brother kicked him while he was down, police said.

The boy was treated for facial injuries at Sherman Hospital and has scheduled a follow-up appointment with his home doctor, police said.

Meanwhile, police caught up with the trio just as they were about to drive off the campus.

The trio remains behind bars Monday at the Kane County lockup, unable to post $4,000 each. All three are due in court Tuesday at the Kane County Judicial Center.

Aggravated battery is a Class 3 felony in which the maximum punishment involves a prison sentence ranging between two to five years.