The students in question were arrested by the Murfreesboro police and charged as bystanders of the fight.

The two children who were actually fighting were not charged due to their ages (five and six), yet the children who witnessed it, who are as young as six-years-old as well, were charged with "criminal responsibility for conduct of another," which is when a "person fails to make a reasonable effort to prevent" a crime, the Tennessean reported.

"I am so saddened, and I'm so sorry this incident happened, because I truly think it could have been avoided," Murfreesboro Police Chief Karl Durr told The Tennessean on Sunday. "Errors were made, and now we are going to correct them moving forward and fix them so they are not repeated."