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The Lantern
More than a thousand people gathered on Chittenden Avenue following the Spring Ohio State football game on April 18, 2021. Multiple cars were flipped.
Columbus Police have charged nine people in connection with last month s Chitt Fest destruction that resulted in numerous fires and flipped cars.
The destruction during the annual block party on April 18 destroyed seven cars, according to The Lantern, Ohio State s student newspaper. The Lantern reported over 1,100 people gathered for the block party on Chittenden Avenue and surrounding streets hours after Ohio State s spring football game.
Columbus Police on Thursday charged seven people with rioting and related offenses. Two other people were charged with receiving stolen property and criminal damaging.
It was around 10:30 Saturday night when Lauren Taras got a text on her neighborhood group chat warning that people were flipping cars in the street.
Taras, an Ohio State senior studying strategic communications and business, had been hanging out at her neighbor s house on Chittenden Avenue while nearly 1,000 students partied outside their door at ChittFest, an annual block party held the day of OSU s spring football game.
It took her a second to register the message, but then Taras remembered that she had parked on the street earlier that day.
She ran down the street, pushing past throngs of partiers, to find people rolling her 2016 red Chevy Cruz over in the middle of Chittenden. They rolled it right side up and some started beating on the car s hood. Someone even stole her license plate.