She Was Working Her Shift at Walmart — Then a Group of Women Brutally Attacked Her By Michael Nied

A woman’s shift at Walmart took an unexpected turn when she was assaulted by a group of women.

The altercation took place on Friday, Aug. 29, at a Walmart on Keystone Avenue in Indianapolis, according to the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department. A video of the fight, posted by a social media user going by the name Kind Butler has since gone viral.

The clip runs for more than four minutes and starts with the employee, identified as Tikerra Hicks by FOX59, on the ground as a group of women surround her and rain down blows.

Hicks was brutally kicked and punched with her hair pulled. A man was also seen kicking her before he was removed by a group trying to break up the fight.

“No fighting at Walmart,” one person trying to stop the assault was heard saying.

A group of employees finally managed to split the women up. However, after they were separated, Hicks ran after the women and retaliated, sparking a second altercation.

Once the argument calmed down, an employee tried to get shoppers in the store to stop recording. However, they insisted that they would continue.

Butler documented the moment that the group of attackers, which appeared to include a woman holding a baby, ran out of the store.

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Speaking to FOX59, he implied that the assailants were a family and said that the fight started “instantly on sight.”

“There wasn’t any questioning, no anything,” he said. “Just as soon as they saw the girl, the whole family came over and started beating her up.”

Hicks told the outlet that she had been suspended after the fight, adding that it took her by surprise.

“I just hear, ‘There she go’ and then boom on the side of my head I feel somebody hitting me,” Hicks said.

She implied that the fight had to do with a friend of hers, who allegedly raped another friend. According to reporting by FOX59, Hicks was named as an “other person” in a police report about the alleged incident from the Beech Grove Police Department.

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However, Hicks said that the alleged rape had “nothing to do with me” and that she had not been contacted by police about the allegations.

“I wasn’t there, even if it did happen, to protect he. And I wasn’t there to defend him either,” she said.

“This remains an open investigation referencing a verbal argument and a physical altercation,” the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department told PEOPLE in a statement on Monday, Sept. 1. “There have been no arrest(s) at this time.”

“The violence that occurred at our store on Friday was unacceptable. We appreciate police for acting quickly,” a representative for Walmart said in a statement shared with PEOPLE.

PEOPLE contacted the Beech Grove Police Department for additional comment but did not hear back by the time of publication.

FOX59 reported that management at Walmart location was unable to comment on the altercation.