A woman’s shift at Walmart turned violent when she was attacked by a group of women.
The incident happened on Friday, Aug. 29, at a Walmart on Keystone Avenue in Indianapolis, according to the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department. A video of the fight, shared on social media by a user named Kind Butler, has gone viral.
The clip lasts over four minutes and begins with the employee, identified as Tikerra Hicks by FOX59, on the ground while several women surround her and hit her.
Hicks was punched and kicked, and her hair was pulled. A man was also seen kicking her before being pulled away by people trying to stop the fight.
“No fighting at Walmart,” one person trying to intervene was heard saying.
FOX59 reported that a group of employees eventually separated the women. However, after the break-up, Hicks chased after them, leading to a second altercation.
Once things calmed down, an employee tried to get shoppers to stop filming, but they continued recording. Butler captured the moment when the group of attackers, which appeared to include a woman holding a baby, ran out of the store.
Speaking to FOX59, Butler suggested the attackers were a family and said the fight started immediately.
“There wasn’t any questioning, no anything,” he said. “Just as soon as they saw the girl, the whole family came over and started beating her up.”
Hicks told FOX59 that she was surprised to learn she had been suspended after the fight.
“I just hear, ‘There she go,’ and then boom, on the side of my head I feel somebody hitting me,” Hicks said.
She said the fight might be connected to a friend of hers who allegedly raped another friend. FOX59 reported that Hicks was listed as an “other person” in a police report about the incident from the Beech Grove Police Department.
However, Hicks said the alleged rape had nothing to do with her and that police had not contacted her about it.
“I wasn’t there, even if it did happen, to protect him. And I wasn’t there to defend him either,” she said.
“This remains an open investigation referencing a verbal argument and a physical altercation,” the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department told PEOPLE in a statement on Monday, Sept. 1. “There have been no arrest(s) at this time.”
Walmart released a statement saying, “The violence that occurred at our store on Friday was unacceptable. We appreciate police for acting quickly.”
PEOPLE reached out to the Beech Grove Police Department for comment but did not receive a response by the time of publication. FOX59 reported that Walmart management at the location was unable to comment on the altercation.
