Video shows fight between rival fraternities during Coastal Carolina University event

The beginnings of the brawl at a Coastal Carolina University were captured on video and shared on Facebook.

The fight broke out in a CCU auditorium between rival fraternities — including one already suspended from university activities — causing a capacity crowd to spill out of the doors “in various levels of disorder,” according to a video and police report.

Members of the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity were seen strolling — a ritual done by black sororities and fraternities — down the aisle of the auditorium before a fight ensues among about a dozen people. The auditorium appears to have a full crowd during the event.

Coastal Carolina University campus police officers wrote in a police report the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity rented the auditorium on Tuesday night for an event and members of a rival fraternity, Kappa Alpha Psi, was present. The gathering was open to whoever had a ticket.

The Kappa Alpha PSI was already suspended from CCU, authorities say in the report.

It took about 20 minutes for police to clear the area, and one member of the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity was knocked out in the brawl, the report states.

Just after 8 p.m., police went to Wheelwright Auditorium for the reported fight, and when officers arrived people were “spilling out of the front doors in various levels of disorder,” officers wrote in the report.

Authorities say both fraternities were participating in the stroll, when one group strolled in front of the other and the fight broke out.

Some people appeared to be continuing the fight or starting new ones as officers arrived, the report states. A separate fight also started in the park area outside the auditorium.

Police have not made any arrests in connection to the incident, according to the police report.

This story was originally published April 11, 2019 at 12:59 PM.