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FORT WAYNE -- One man was shot and another stabbed in a fight that began during a track meet at Northrop High School.\nFormer Northrop athlete Jamaal D. Gill, 21, of Fort Wayne, was shot during the Tuesday night confrontation and was taken to a hospital in serious condition, police Capt. Tom Rhoades said. Keith E. Williams, 18, of Fort Wayne, was taken to a local hospital for the treatment of stab wounds.\nWilliams was released from the hospital and then arrested by police officers on preliminary felony charges of aggravated battery and possession of a firearm on school property, Rhoades said Wednesday.\nPolice said the two started fighting in the stands of Northrop's Spuller Stadium during the Summit Athletic Conference track and field championships. They were asked to leave the stadium, but another fight erupted in the parking lot about 8 p.m., Rhoades said.\nPolice officers locked down the school for a time and did not allow anyone from the track meet to leave.\n"Everybody ran out of the stands, when everybody found out, so everybody crowded around the man who was shot," student Nia Coward said. "They had to pause the track meet when they found out what happened."\nAbout 2,000 people were at the stadium at the time of the shooting and 100 more students were in the school for after-school programs and meetings, said Doug Coutts, Fort Wayne Community Schools chief operations officer.