CINCINNATI — Father Rob Jack’s day begins with a short walk through a parking lot near the Archdiocese of Cincinnati to his radio station. The Catholic priest hosts a daily afternoon show for Catholic radio station Sacred Heard.

But earlier this week, he said his brief trip to his office was far from normal when two children ran past him, even hitting him in the arm.

“One of them ran past me, another hit me in the arm. I said ‘OK’ and kept walking,” the priest said.

After that, Jack said he saw a fight starting in broad daylight as more and more people arrived. The priest said he saw groups coming from across the block, gathering in the parking lot near his building.

“They all started running and they all ended up in the parking lot area and a fight ensued,” he said.

Jack described the violence he witnessed.

“They were brutal to this young girl,” he said. “They were just hitting her in the head, kicking her.”

The CPD incident report stated that officers were alerted to the fight just before 1 p.m. on Tuesday, November 12.

A Cincinnati Police Department spokesperson said WCPO officers responded to a “juvenile fight” along the 800 block of Walnut Street.

WCPO 9 News obtained 911 calls from CPD in which a woman called dispatchers and reported seeing a young girl being attacked by a large group. Police told WCPO that firefighters did not respond to any injuries and the group dispersed when officers arrived.

The Archdiocese of Cincinnati told WCPO it was working with Cincinnati police and had no further information to provide.