Monday, there were extra guards at both Cohen and Rabouin High Schools in New Orleans.

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There were extra security patrols at Cohen and Rabouin schools Monday.

A football game between the two schools had to be stopped in the third quarter Saturday night when violence erupted both in and outside Pan American Stadium in City Park.

Recovery School District Security Director Eddie Compass says the two incidents are unrelated.

He says a fight in the stands is connected to last month's murder of a McMain High School student.

"Her relatives were in the stands," said Compass. "They saw a relative of the individual who actually did the shooting. When they saw him, they immediately jumped on him."

While security guards were trying to break up that fight, shots rang out.

According to police, a 16-year old was in the parking lot of the stadium when four suspects who knew him pulled up in a car and they exchanged gunfire.

"One individual said they had attacked him about two weeks ago and he saw them and he retaliated," said Compass. "The other individual says it was in self-defense."

The NOPD arrested 5 teenagers on aggravated assault and gun charges including 18-year old Elton Williams, 17 year old Jeremey Addison and Kevin Ratcliff and two 16 year olds.

According to the RSD, the teenagers attend Frederick Douglass, Carver, O Perry Walker and Rabouin High Schools.

The community group "Silence is Violence" helps mentor students at Rabouin.

Co-founder Baty Landis says violence around our young people is very upsetting.

"It's doubly upsetting when we see violence actually starting to enter the school realm," said Landis. "We would like to see our schools as some degree of safe havens for our young people."

According to the RSD, there was a 16-member security detail at Pan American Stadium on Saturday night, made up of both school personnel and Orleans Sheriff's deputies. Beginning Friday, there will be more guards at the games and more deputies carrying metal detecting wands.

"We're going to increase the number of wands," said Compass. "We're going to increase the patrol outside. We're going to increase the number of individual inside."

No word yet on when or if the Cohen-Rabouin game will be completed.