Sugar Land Couple Arrested After Fight at 12-Year-Olds' Softball Game; Father Hospitalized With Fractured Skull

A fight between parents at a 12-year-old girls' softball game in Sugar Land, Texas, left one father with a fractured skull and a grandfather with a broken hip. Two parents from the Illusions Gold side were arrested.

The game was Saturday, Oct. 24, at Imperial Park, between two select teams: Illusions Gold 2033 and the Timbergrove Thunder. Sugar Land police responded around 7:30 p.m. after reports of an unconscious man.

What the court records say

Kiarious Marshun Hall and his wife, Jazmine Hall, were there to watch their daughter play for Illusions Gold. According to charging documents, the dispute started over Hall's behavior while the opposing team was at bat.

Hall told officers that a man from the Thunder side approached him and said he "couldn't cheer before the players pitched the ball."

Investigators reviewed video recorded by a witness. Court records say it shows Hall striking another father in the face with a metal water bottle, knocking him unconscious. The records say Hall then swung the bottle at a second man before the confrontation turned into a brawl.

The records also say the video shows Jazmine Hall running into the fight and pushing that second man. Both fell into nearby bushes. Bystanders separated everyone before police arrived.

Court records show Kiarious Hall was charged with assault causing bodily injury. Both Halls were booked into the Fort Bend County Jail.

The injuries

The first man has not been publicly identified. His attorney, Steve Shellist, says he suffered a broken jaw, a fractured skull and three brain bleeds. He was taken to St. Luke's Hospital, where he remained hospitalized, according to Shellist.

The second man is Gary Greaser, a grandfather who was at the game to see his granddaughter play. He has a broken hip, needed seven stitches in his chin, and had extensive scrapes.

Greaser told ABC13 in Houston he stepped in after seeing the first man struck. "I said, 'You can't do this.' I took him, I wanted to disarm the guy, because he's going to do it to somebody else," he said.

Greaser described the start of the argument this way: "We're saying, 'Hey, why are you getting loud?' It's bad sportsmanship to do it right as the pitch comes up when our girls are batting, and that's all it took. He just flipped and said, 'I can do whatever I want, I can say whatever I want. And you can't stop me.'"

His summary of the aftermath: "It's medieval times, like we're going to smash each other in the head with something."

Hall's account

Hall does not accept the charge as described. According to the affidavit, he told officers that one of the men elbowed him and the other poked him in the chest, and that he acted in self-defense.

The affidavit also records Hall saying he punched the second man in the face, and that the man fell, hit his head on the sidewalk and lost consciousness. That is a different mechanism than the metal-bottle strike described in the court records from the witness video.

The court documents say the video does not show the elbowing or poking Hall describes. The video is the central piece of evidence, and a court has not yet ruled on it.

Resignation and the online fight

Jazmine Hall resigned Monday, Oct. 26, as an assistant principal at Lamar Junior High School in Lamar CISD. The district said she reported the incident to human resources over the weekend. It also said the fight happened off campus, at an event with no tie to the district.

The video spread widely on social media, and the reaction turned racial. One X account that identified itself as a Black man from Brooklyn described the Halls, who are Black, as a couple who "stood on Business" against "an angry mob of white folks." The account said the wife was "forced to resign" and suggested a GoFundMe.

The district's statement says she reported the incident herself and then resigned. The charging documents describe a dispute over cheering and do not mention race. Some commenters pointed to the video and court records in response to the claim.

What comes next

The case is at an early stage. Kiarious Hall faces an assault-causing-bodily-injury charge, and a judge or jury will have to weigh his self-defense claim against the video the court records describe.

The injured father's attorney is still dealing with a client in the hospital with a fractured skull. Whether prosecutors will change the charge in light of the injuries has not been addressed in the court records, and Illusions Gold's coach has not responded to requests about whether the Halls remain with the team.