Streamwood students in fight face charges, disciplinary action

Eight students are facing disciplinary action after an altercation at Streamwood High School last Friday afternoon, Elgin Area School District U-46 spokesman Tony Sanders said.

Seven of the students were also charged with disorderly conduct, though no one appeared to have been injured in the fight, Streamwood Deputy Police Chief Jim Gremo said.

There was only one legal adult among those charged, 17-year-old Cortez Wanble of the 200 block of Shagbark Lane in Streamwood. The others were all boys under 17.

While the school district is saying eight students were involved in the fight, the district may have had different criteria than the police department did in arresting only seven, Gremo said.

The fight seems to have begun among a group of friends, when someone took money away from someone else and kept it in what was supposed to be a joking manner, Gremo said.

But a fight escalated when members of the group began pushing each other and shouting, he added.

An allegation that someone in the fight may have had a weapon was investigated but determined to be unfounded, Gremo said.

Sanders declined to comment on whether the school has taken specific disciplinary action, only saying that appropriate action will be taken anytime it's proven a student was involved in a fight at school.