{"id":187246,"date":"2026-03-02T20:49:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/187246\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T20:49:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:49:36","slug":"man-charged-with-assault-more-adults-could-be-charged-following-brawl-at-plano-youth-basketball-game-shaw-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/187246\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with assault, more adults could be charged, following brawl at Plano youth basketball game \u2013 Shaw Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">One man was charged with assault and police say other charges may come against more individuals following a brawl at a youth basketball game i<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/plano\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/plano\/\">n Plano<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/plano-police-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/plano-police-department\/\">Plano Police Department<\/a> responded around 1:58 p.m. on Saturday to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/kendall-county-now\/2025\/06\/01\/teachers-surprise-students-with-inflatable-costume-race-in-plano\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/kendall-county-now\/2025\/06\/01\/teachers-surprise-students-with-inflatable-costume-race-in-plano\/\">Emily G. Johns School<\/a> to reports of around 10 people \u201cyelling and fighting\u201d during the game, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">There was pushing and shoving between adults during the game and the department is still looking into videos of the incident, said Deputy Chief Gene Morton. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">Edward Phillips, 43, of Plano, was charged with assault for allegedly making a verbal threat to another adult during the game, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">Phillips was given a March 24 court date appearance at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/kendall-county-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/kendall-county-now\/\">Kendall County<\/a> Courthouse <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/yorkville\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/yorkville\/\">in Yorkville<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">Morton said the incident remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One man was charged with assault and police say other charges may come against more individuals following a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[9310,294,803,1440,251,160,162,161,1934,11967,16758,1049],"class_list":["post-187246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-breaking","tag-crime","tag-crime-and-courts","tag-kendall-county","tag-local-news","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-plano-police-department","tag-plano-school-district-88","tag-shaw-local-front-headlines","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}