On April 19th, 2025, the Aurora, Ohio Police Department was called to the scene at the local Puma store for a potential fight at the business. The following shows the bodywn worn camera footage of what happened during the incident. Over there. Go over there. Now, this is his car. So, that's not who's fighting. Me and him. Me and my coworker. You and your coworker? Yeah. That's That's a coworker. All right. You come over here. You stay there. That's his car. So, he can go over there. I don't give a [ __ ] whose car it is. I just don't want to be by his car. That's why I said that. Okay. Hey, Davelin. Talk to him. You come talk to me, please. All right. What's going on? I mean, I guess um Look at me. Face me. This is not my This is not my coworker, by the way. This is my manager. That's your manager. Okay. He um he was taking pictures of me in there. I was in the back in the back office. Yeah. Texting my mom. He's like, "All right, if you're going to uh" He's like, "If you're going to text, just make it quick." I'm like, "All right." Turn my head two seconds later, he's taking pictures of me. Mhm. I didn't say nothing. I let it slide the first time. So, I'm like I've never had somebody take a picture of me at work. Yeah. I come outside. I'm just by the register waiting for a customer. If there is a customer that's going to come up and ring up, I'm leaning over the counter. Takes a picture of me again. So, I'm like I knew I wasn't tripping. Like the first time I thought I was like, "All right, maybe he was like taking a picture of like we got to take pictures of visuals. Sure. Stuff that's not supposed to be like uh like that's a hazard like in front of the walkway or anything." So, I think he's probably taking a picture of that in the back room. So, once he did it again, I'm like, "Okay." Yeah. The first time he was taking a picture of me. So, I come outside now before he could like all the way get back here to his car. I'm like, "Wait." I'm like, "Will you just take a picture of me?" He said, "Dude, I was taking pictures of you." So I'm like, "Okay, don't take no picture of me again." So he was like, So he was like, "Bro, uh, I can do whatever the [ __ ] I want. I run the show here." So I'm like, "Yeah, no, that's that's not what's going to happen. You not taking Don't take no picture of me again." And he said, "Dude, I can do whatever you want to you." That's when he got started walking up to me aggressive. Don't touch my bad. My bad. But I'm just demonstrating that. Yeah, I got you. That's what he did. He touched me. I said, "Bro, don't put your hands on me again because I didn't I didn't invade your space, your bubble, and none of that." Yeah. He did it again. He pushed me. I'm not going to push you, bro. He pushed me. So, I said, "Hey." So, I said, "Hey, don't don't put your hands on me again." Yeah. Or I'mma clock out and I'm going to whoop your ass. Manager came outside. Well, the other manager, her name's Ty. Mhm. Other manager came outside. She's trying to break it up like, "What's going on? What's going on?" Yeah. So, the other associate, Dom, he comes outside doing the same thing that she's doing. And it keeps escalating. He keeps calling going going back and forth calling me a [ __ ] So I was like, "Yeah, now I'mma clock out and I'm about to whoop your ass. In the midst of this, I'm trying to get a hold of my uh boss on her work phone, but she's not answering." So I'm going to tell her I'm going to clock out and I'm going to whoop his ass. Okay. Cuz I've been wanting to do this for a long time, too. I So this has been escalating for a while between you two? No, not between us two. I'm just saying like I don't like certain people here. Sure. So I just come in, do my work. Like the people I don't talk to, Sure. they know I don't talk to them. I talk to like one or two people here. Yeah. I come in and do my work, get the [ __ ] on and go home. Yeah. Like everybody should. That's why it's called work for a reason. It's not called play. So you guys So argument started inside. You guys came outside. It's It didn't even really start inside. Just the pictures. Yeah. He took the pictures. And so like while I'm at the register, like I said, I thought I was tripping in the back. Like you feel me? I'm thinking he's taking a picture of something else. You feel me? doing manager [ __ ] Sure. He's taking pictures of me. Yeah. Petty [ __ ] Like, what are you what are you doing? Right. Right. Right. What are you doing? So, and then the fight happened out here. What happened? Yeah. That's That's when I walked out and then that's when I that's when I told you went he was walking away like there's a walk. There's a walkway. Sure. Yeah. There's a walkway. So, walking out the doors and the there's the sidewalk obviously to all the malls. He's on the right hand side like cuz he's walking around this corner to that's his car. We all parked back here. My car's over there. So, he's walking while he's on the sidewalk. He hasn't hit the corner yet. So I'm like, bro, was he just taking pictures of me? And he's like, yeah. And then that's when I told you, he was like, I can do whatever the [ __ ] I want to. Yeah. I I run the show. I'm like, don't take no picture of me again. That's when he said it again and got close to me. Yeah. And he touched me. I'm like, bro, don't touch me. Cuz if I wanted to touch you, I would have been beat your ass a long time ago. Yeah. Okay. Bam. Any uh any injuries to you right now? I'm I'm good. I mean, that's that's not nothing, bro. I was scraped. I play football track. I'm good. Okay. Ear's a little swoll. Did karate? I'm good, bro. Okay. Okay. All right. Do you got any ID on you at all? Yeah. No. You don't have anything on that? No. No driving the wall. Nothing. No. What's your social? I mean, it's in I'm not going to give you my social, but it's in my car. Like, not on me. You got Where's your license at? In my car. That's what I'm saying. Let's go get it. Is this his? No, it's not. That's fine. First, thank you. Yep. 31600. Copy. Darien Wright, 24 year old male out of Garfield Heights. He's valid. I want copy. Darren, hold on. But how long you been working here? Like two years. Two years. All right. Just post up right there by your car real quick. Okay. Where's his car at? Right there. Yeah. I'm going to get him. You want me to get him a statement? He's He's working on one. Oh, over there. Go over there. Now, this is his car. So, I'm That's not Who's fighting? Me and him. Me and my coworker. You and your coworker. Yeah. That's the manager has to come. All right. You come over here. You stay there. That's his car. So, he can go over there. I don't give a [ __ ] whose car it is. I just don't want to be by his car. That's why I said that. Okay. Hey, Davelin. Talk to him. You come talk to me, please. All right. What's going on? I mean, I guess um Look at me. This is not my This is not my coworker, by the way. This is my manager. That's your manager. Okay. He um he was taking pictures of me in there. I was in the back in the back office. Yeah. Texting my mom. He's like, "All right, if you're going to uh" He's like, "If you're going to text, just make it quick." I'm like, "All right." Turn my head two seconds later, he's taking pictures of me. Mhm. I didn't say nothing. I let it slide the first time. So, I'm like, I've never had somebody take a picture of me at work. Yeah. I come outside. I'm just by the register waiting for a customer. If there is a customer that's going to come up and ring up, I'm leaning over the counter, takes a picture of me again. So, I'm like I knew I wasn't tripping. Like the first time I thought I was like, "All right, maybe he was like taking a picture of like we got to take pictures of visuals. Sure. Stuff that's not supposed to be like uh like that's a hazard like in front of the walkway or anything." So, I think he's probably taking a picture of that in the back room. So, once he did it again, I'm like, "Okay." Yeah. the first time he was taking a picture of me. So I come outside now before he could like all the way get back here to his car. I'm like, "Wait." I'm like, "Will you just take a picture of me?" He said, "Dude, I was taking pictures of you." So I'm like, "Okay, don't take no picture of me again." So he was like, So he was like, "Bro, uh, I can do whatever the [ __ ] I want. I run the show here." So I'm like, "Yeah, no, that's that's not what's going to happen. You not taking Don't take no picture of me again." Mhm. And he said, "Dude, I can do whatever the [ __ ] I want to you." That's when he got started walking up to me aggressive. My bad. My bad. But I'm just demonstrating. Yeah, I got you. That's what he did. He touched me. I said, "Bro, don't put your hands on me again cuz I didn't I didn't invade your space, your bubble, and none of that." Yeah. He did it again. He pushed me. I'm not going to push you. He pushed me. So I said, "Hey." So I said, "Hey, don't don't put your hands on me again or I'mma clock out and I'm going to whoop your ass." Manager came outside. Well, the other manager, her name's Ty. Other manager came outside. She's trying to break it up. Like, what's going on? What's going on? Yeah. So, the other associate, Dom, he comes outside doing the same thing that she's doing, and it keeps escalating. He keeps calling going back and forth, calling me a [ __ ] So, I was like, "Yeah, now I'm going to clock out and I'm about to whoop your ass." In the midst of this, I'm trying to get a hold of my uh boss on her work phone, but she's not answering. So, I'm going to tell her I'm going to clock out and I'm going to whoop his ass. Okay. Because I've been wanting to do this for a long time, too. So, this has been escalating for a while between you two. No, not between us two. I'm just saying like I don't like certain people here. Sure. So, I just come in, do my work. Like the people I don't talk to Sure. They know I don't talk to them. I talk to like one or two people here. Yeah. I come in and do my work, get the [ __ ] on, and go home. Yeah. Like everybody should. That's why it's called work for a reason. It's not called play. So, you guys So, argument started inside. You guys came outside. It's It didn't even really start inside. Just the pictures. Yeah, that he took the pictures. And so like while I'm at the register, like I said, I thought I was tripping in the back like, you feel me? I'm thinking he's taking a picture of something else. Feel me? Doing manager [ __ ] Sure. He's taking pictures of me. Yeah. Petty [ __ ] Like what are you what are you doing? Right. Right. Right. What are you doing? So then the fight happened out here. What happened? Yeah. That's when I walked out and then that's when I that's when I told you when he was walking away like there's a walk there's a walkway. Sure. Yeah. There's a walkway. So, walking out the doors and the there's the sidewalk obviously to all the malls. He's on the right hand side like cuz he's walking around this corner to that's his car. We all parked back here. My car's over there. So, he's walking while he's on the sidewalk. He hasn't hit the corner yet. So, I'm like, "Bro, was he just taking pictures of me?" And he's like, "Yeah." And then that's when I told you, he was like, "I can do whatever I want to." Yeah. I I run the show. I'm like, "Don't take no picture of me again." That's when he said it again and got close to me. Yeah. And he touched I'm like, "Bro, don't touch me." Cuz if I wanted to touch you, I would have been beat your ass a long time ago. Yeah. Okay. Any uh any injuries to you right now? I'm I'm good. I mean, that's that's not nothing, bro. Was scrape. I play football. I'm good. Okay. Ears a little swoll. Did karate. I'm good, bro. Okay. Okay. All right. Do you got any ID on you at all? Yeah. No. You don't have anything like that? No. No driving a wall? Nothing? No. What's your social? I mean, it's in I'm not going to give you my social, but it's in my car. Like not on me. You go. Where's your license at? In my car. Let's go get it. Is this his car? No, it's not. No. Okay. So, you really have to write this right now. Okay. Do you not want to? Well, I don't know. I'm shaking, man. Okay. What would you like to do? You don't do verbal. We're talking right now. No, I know. Like you can't document it based off of like me. Uh Sure. If you don't want to take it, you don't have to. No, I can't. I can't, man. I just don't It's a lot to write. I always hate doing statements. Okay. How about I'll give you a statement. You can fill it out and turn it in later. How does that work? I give you a piece of paper. You fill out your statement when you feel ready since you don't feel ready right now. And then you can drop them off to your own convenience. I guess that works. That work? Yeah. I can try right now, too, man. Well, it's up to you. I'm not trying to force you to do anything you don't want to. I'd rather do it when it's fresh on my mind. That's usually better. That's why I have you doing it. All right, bring it on. I got you. You sure? Yes. Okay. I'm not trying to force you to do it. No, I don't. I just All right. I don't want this to play out like this. So nice. So just so so I get it right. You're you're taking pictures of him off the clock. He's on the clock. So you can show that he's not doing what he's supposed to be doing. No. Incorrect. I just was leaving work. Took the pictures. Clocked out. Was leaving. He was still doing something wrong. So, one of them I took off the clock. Yes, one of them took off. But two of the pictures I was on the clock. Okay. It was just the last impression on the story. He's still not doing what he's supposed to do. Okay. All right. So, then then he puts up in your face. He pushes you and stuff. Starts to come at you aggressive manner. You throw a punch at him. I did throw a punch. Did it land? It did land. It hit him like in the chest neck area. But like I said, there was no way for me to avoid the situation without him. He wouldn't break the distance whether I went into the store or I was trying to leave in my car. Okay. Did he throw punches at you at any time? It was the shove that initiated it. Okay. And then I definitely threw a punch cuz I would never throw a punch without getting a shove first. Okay. But did he did a after you punch him, did you punch you back? Yeah, it was like a full out brawl. He just wanted to non-stop keep going. Okay. Okay. Anything different else happened after that? Not really. These two, my co-workers were trying to split us up and it just wouldn't break apart. You know, I was more than willing to just see you later. You know, we're done here for the day. And it just was never going to break away. Okay. I didn't know how to get away from the situation, dude. That's I'm not I'm not I'm just asking questions cuz I wasn't here, right? That's that's why I'm just I want to make sure that I have all the facts, right? And like you said, while it's fresh in your mind, I'm trying trying to have you kind of relive it. I know it's super fresh and it's right there. But I wasn't here. I just got here and by the time I got here, you guys were already separated. So, I just want to know all the facts. Um, do you have your ID on you by chance? Yeah, I do, man. Okay. You okay? Yeah. Uh, so we were standing outside of AR finishing a cigarette before we were to walk in and as we're standing there, like a barrel rolled out of the entrance. Um, I'm not quite sure who was on talk to at that point, but uh, it escalated right in front of the grocery store and she yelled and scream to get them to stop. Uh, maybe like 30 seconds. They and then once they came around the corner, I was I didn't have any like I don't know. Did you hear anybody say anything about a gun? I didn't hear anything about a gun. I just saw physical violence. I didn't hear. Would you would you uh be able to give us a written statement on what you saw and what you heard? Yeah. Okay, let me grab this phone. Right back. I'm just on this switch real quick. Go with me. Watch your back, dude. I got him. I'm not lying to you. There's nothing. This kind of like hurts my We're going to be out. Well, the problem is you turned your wrist. Yeah. If you left them the way they were, you wouldn't be hurt right now. I didn't say you were. I'm just saying people left them the way you I had them. I didn't move at all. I didn't I I can't move them if I could tell. There's a there's a cutout in the back of this to help rest your hands. Uh try to slide them more back behind. Do you feel What I'm saying is I didn't move them. Okay. Well, we're going to station. I'll get them off in 2 minutes for sure. Y back with you. Okay. Sounds good. Sorry about that. It's all good. It's all good. I got it. Figure everything out. All right. Talk to you later. Bye. Bye. Okay. 409. You guys are probably not allowed to tell me this, but with Garyen, do you guys know if he's allowed back in the building or anything since he he was involved or so? Cuz he's still clocked in. So, I don't know like if can you do you know how to clock him out? Yeah. And all that stuff. I just want to know cuz my boss said um just make sure he clocks out. But if he's not allowed on the premises and I can most definitely find another way. I'm sorry. I was I didn't mean to interrupt you. Um he he's a manager. Are you a manager as well? Ryan is Darren is not. He's a sales associate. Okay. Yeah. Um we're we're going to have you probably um I'm sorry. Ryan, uh Frank could probably clock mounts up, right? Okay. I'd imagine. And then it would probably be up to like, you know, you, Ryan, um, whoever runs like your manager staff, uh, whether you want him to come back or not. I would assume he's fired and not able to come back. Yeah. Um, I actually believe that Ryan told me that that he was fired. Um, as part of his statement, I'm not sure if he's allowed if he has the ability to do that kind of stuff. Um, it's not really any of my business, but um, but yeah, I would I would assume probably not. Okay. And if he does come back in, uh, probably not have Ryan be the one that that speaks with him, maybe a higher up manager or something. If anybody feels uncomfortable, you can feel free to call us. We can always come by, stay by, cuz sometimes people have to pick up like last checks and stuff like that. Yeah. Right. Um, if once they get fired, like if you guys don't feel comfortable with him coming back in, then do that. Um, if Ryan's a manager for Dave, but you have a really good relationship with Darren and he's like, you don't he doesn't mind picking up like the last check from you. Um, that's fine. Or, you know, does he work for you? Yeah. Okay. Um, yeah. If like one of you guys or something are there, whatever you feel comfortable with, but we're always a resource. You can always call us if you don't feel comfortable and then, you know, we can just like, "Hey, here's your last check. By the way, you're also banned from the premises. Don't come back." Okay. Okay. Sounds good. Cool. So, as of now, like are they going to the police station or anything? Are you guys just going to keep them for questioning? Um, we're still uh waiting on Ryan to finish like some of his statement. He's a little shooken off from what just happened, right? Um, understandably so. But, uh, right now it's Darien. He's under arrest, so he is going through our station. Um, Oh, thank Uh we just have some uh final stuff to speak with Ryan about and then he'll be out of here once I give him some paperwork and then uh and then you guys can do what you have. Okay. Okay. So it it's to know Darion is most definitely going down this station. Yeah, he already left. Oh, so the the the officer in charge was just here uh left and took him down. So Okay. Okay. Okay. Thank you so much for that information. Yeah, no problem. Appreciate that. Thank you guys for sticking around and helping. I'm sure that was probably an ugly situation. So, but Oh my god. Sounds like it. I can't believe I was in the middle. I could have got hit, bro. Yeah. I'm glad you didn't cuz then that would have been even worse, right? Right. Like, nobody likes black eyes. No. I mean, they might look cool for a day or two, but after that, it's hard to sleep on. You know what I'm saying? So, yeah. One of them grabbed me a little bit. Yeah. Was it just in the middle of it while trying to split them up? One of them kind of grabbed me. I think I got punched or something from the side. But was that your dad? Yeah, he thought I wasn't sure. They walked over was like, "What did you do?" I was like, "I didn't do anything." I swear. No, you guys. Yeah, you guys are fine. Um uh I don't think we need you for anything else. Do you need them for anything else, Alic? No. Um I Let me check with the other officers real quick. I don't believe so. You guys will probably go back into the store and then we'll send Ryan in. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty.