The brawl at Mount Hebron High School that claimed Robert Brazell?s life grew from a fistfight on Feb. 16 in the Ellicott City neighborhood behind Rascals Skate Shop, according to high school students who were involved in both incidents and asked not to be named.

In the Feb. 16 fight, seven Mount Hebron students scrapped with an Atholton High School student and two of his friends. Both the Atholton High School student and his two of his friends described it as a minor skirmish.