The first day of school wasn’t supposed to be like this.
As kindergartners headed out the door to be picked up by parents, a fight broke out in the parking lot. Heated words. Raised voices. Let’s settle this down the street, someone was heard saying. We’ll settle this like men.
They were men: Parents, not students.
And now police are trying to figure why the confrontation on a scorching summer morning ended the way it did: with Carmello D’Alessandro run down in the street and left to die, and 31-year-old Anthony Michael Parrinello facing a second-degree-murder charge.
The conflict began, police say, in the parking lot of Canyon Springs School in Anthem, just before 11 a.m. Monday as kindergarten let out.