A Colorado Springs Police Department sergeant working “extra-duty” at a school inside The Citadel mall was on site late Thursday morning when a fight broke out among multiple people, one of whom reportedly threatened others with a handgun.

Around 11:15 a.m., the sergeant requested “urgent assistance” and later reported that a “large fight was taking place,” according to a police blotter entry. 

When officers from the Sand Creek Division arrived, the extra-duty officer already had multiple people detained and “several others (were) walking around still trying to reinitiate a fight.”

The fight was estimated to have involved “about half a dozen people,” some of whom said they’d been threatened at gunpoint, said Ira Cronin, a spokesman with the Police Department.

A firearm was subsequently recovered by officers who searched a vehicle in the mall parking lot, leading to the arrest of Mustafa Hasan, 22, for weapons charges and felony menacing, according to police.

While the Thursday fight itself resulted in no serious injuries, two people involved in the incident were taken by ambulance to area hospitals due to other medical complaints, according to police.

According to CSPD, the department’s “extra-duty” program allows officers to “provide additional law enforcement services to private businesses and/or public agencies” … which “cannot be met through routine police service.” 

Extra-duty services are paid for by the businesses with which officers contract, Cronin said. 

The Citadel mall school was not named in the police report, but the only educational institution listed at that address is GOAL High School, a publicly funded charter school.