BOTH girls in 'shovel fight' video are arrested for disorderly conduct
BOTH girls in infamous 'shovel fight' video are arrested for disorderly conduct... as it is revealed they were brawling over a BOY
- Emily Olinger and Miranda Fugate, both reportedly 14, have been identified as the girls in the video
- Both teens were arrested and face the same charges
- Olinger says she threw the shovel because she had been bullied
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Both teenage girls who were filmed brawling in a now-infamous 'shovel fight' video have been arrested and charged with disorderly conduct.
Emily Olinger and Miranda Fugate, both 14 years old, were fighting over a boy in Olinger's yard in Miami County, Ohio, when Olinger threw a shovel at Fugate, which it her in the head and knocked her to the ground. The entire incident was filmed by a friend and uploaded online.
The video became an online sensation - gaining hundreds of thousands of views on social media. When a school truancy officer saw the film, he was no impressed. Neither were sheriff's deputies or the local prosecutor.
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Arrested: Police have arrested Emily Olinger, the girl who threw the shovel (left), and Miranda Fugate, the girl who got hit with the shovel, for disorderly conduct
'If you start hitting people in the head with a shovel, it can lead to death,' Major Steve Lord of the Miami County Sheriff's Office told WHIO-TV.
Notably, Olinger - who admitted to WHIO that she threw the shovel - faces the same charges as Fugate.
The girls told the TV station that the fight had been brewing for a long time - and that it was over a boy.
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ShareOlinger said she felt justified in throwing the shovel.
''I told her to leave again, and she refused, so then the first thing I saw was my shovel. I picked it up and then she said, "OK, OK" and by the time she said she was done, I already hit her with it,' the teen told WHIO.
'I've been bullied ever since I was in the fourth grade, and that's why I hit her with the shovel because I'm tired of it.'
Uh oh: The latest viral video to do the rounds involved 16-year-old Miranda Fugate (left) getting smacked in the head in the head by a shovel thrown by Emily Powers (right) in a yard in Vandalia, Ohio
Running scared: Fugate, who had been the initiator of the fight between the two, attempts to flee as Powers comes at her
As the 16-year-old gets further away, Powers decides to launch the shovel at her
Bulls-eye: The tool hits Fugate dead in the back of the head
The teen is sent hurtling toward the pavement
Ouch: Fugate immediately starts crying from the blow, but afterwards took to social media to say she is fine
The video quickly spread through all channels of social media, which Fugate stepping forward to identify herself as 'Shovel Girl'
As the video quickly spread online, with some dubbing it 'the best fight ever', an obviously-fake news story that Fugate had died as a result of the hit proliferated just as fast.
'Miranda Fugate died of serious head injuries after being hit with a shovel in the head by an old friend of hers named Emily Powers,' the story, which first appeared on curious website Huzlers, said.
'At first, It only seemed like a minor head injury as Miranda also temporarily lost one ear's hearing.
'Suddenly, while watching Mean Girls at home that same day, Miranda collapsed and died instantly.
'Doctors are saying she died of severe head trauma.'
Fugate soon took to Twitter to announce she was alive and well, posting: 'I'M THE GIRL that got hit in the head with the shovel lol ... ya'll made me famous for getting hurt LMAO.'
Online murmurings said the scuffle started 'over a boy'.
Viral star: Miranda Fugate, seen here in her Facebook profile, is said to have intigated the fight, which is believed to have started over a boy
The original video, which is available on YouTube but contains explicit language, has got hundreds of thousands of hits, as have numerous of other edited ones that have been uploaded.
The girl's go for numerous rounds of slapping and kicking each other before the grand shovel finale, exchanging colorful dialogue in-between.
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Share'I think I just broke my hand with your face, dude,' Fugate says at one point.
'I got a hard a-- head,' Powers replies.
'I can tell,' Fugate hits back.
After the fiery red-head gets knocked down, she scurries away to a nearby bush with her friends, saying she can't hear out of one ear.
'I beat her a-- though, so it's OK,' Fugate says, with the video cutting shortly after.
Earlier: The girls square up toward the start of their multiple-round fight
Afterwards, Fugate is sure she won the fight, after hitting and kicking Powers numerous times, despite being taken down by a shovel
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