A kindergarten graduation at Queens of the Apostles School in Toledo turned violent when parents began fighting over seats while the children were downstairs rehearsing. Police said one woman was arrested for assault and another person was hospitalized with stitches to her head.

Court records say Jessica Anderson grabbed someone by the hair and struck that person’s head against a chair. Craig Mays said he had argued with Anderson before her family jumped him, leaving him unable to watch his daughter graduate that day.

The fight broke out over seating in a room packed with families waiting to see kindergarteners walk across the stage. Mays said one family started moving chairs to make space, and he said that led to a confrontation that quickly spread through the first two rows.

“There was another family who started to grab their own chairs and kind of like make their own space and make their own seating. Which I really didn’t have a problem with but my kid’s mom, they were right in front of her and she couldn’t see,” Mays said. He said the argument escalated when a woman behind him began shouting and cursing, calling his group weird and telling them to mind their own business.

From there, Mays said, the scene turned chaotic. He said Anderson’s family stood up from the first two rows, with “five guys, five girls,” and that he was hit before he could make sense of what was happening. “I literally don’t remember anything, I just know was sucker punched,” he said.

Mays said he was then surrounded on the floor. “Once I was taken it to the round, it was probably four or five other guys that were on top of me trampoline me punching me. You kick me in the head,” he said. He also said video shows Anderson allegedly grabbing his child’s mother by the hair, pulling her away and striking her face.

“She grabbed my kid’s mom by her hair, pulled her away from me stop punching her face then maybe five or six other girls just came and trampled her and was just stomping her kicking her in the face,” Mays said. He said the violence ruined a day that should have belonged to the children and the teachers who prepared them. “So, being at another school’s kindergarten graduation, I know how hard those kids work. I know how hard those teachers work for us just to ruin it and be selfish like that and it breaks my heart. I couldn’t watch my daughter graduate today,” he said.

The incident happened during a kindergarten graduation ceremony, so the disruption landed at one of the most important moments of the school year for the families involved. Police said one person was hospitalized and one woman was arrested in connection with the fight, but the school had not announced when it would reschedule the graduation.

For Mays and the other parents who came to watch a milestone, the day ended not with applause but with an assault case, a hospital visit and a ceremony left without a new date.