Five more arrest warrants have been issued in connection with the Sunday brawl in Edgewood that injured two women and left one man partially paralyzed, police said.
Police have arrested four teenage girls. They have been charged as adults with attempted murder, assault and malicious destruction after the confrontation, which involved up to 50 people in the 1900 block of Eloise Lane. All four suspects were denied bail Tuesday.
Sgt. Christina Presberry, Harford County Sheriff?s Office spokeswoman, said the fight began around 7:30 p.m. as a confrontation over a resident?s relationship with a young man from the neighborhood.
Witnesses said up to 50 people were part of the crowd, but Presberry said it?s unclear if all of them were involved in the fight.
“When there?s word of a fight, there tend to be crowds that gather,” she said. “When deputies came, people were just fleeing.”
In addition to ongoing patrols and work by an anti-gang task force, Sheriff Jesse Bane said police would start using a new “nuisance-abatement” law to prosecute owners of properties that generate complaints and police calls.
His office was also investigating the legality of noting the license plates of cars entering and leaving the community to track and interdict drug dealing, Bane said.
“We?re just going to keep stepping it up until that community is where it needs to be,” Bane said. “Just as a result of that incident, there?s a whole lot more going on in that community, and there will be more arrests.”
Acting on information fromthe scene of the fight, deputies stopped a car Sunday night and arrested the four teenage girls and seized baseball bats and knives from a car, police said.
Shamere T. Germany, 16, Toronda Jackson, 17, Tommyrre Reid, 16, and Layelle Reid, 15, were arrested and charged with attempted first- and second-degree murder, first- and second-degree assault and malicious destruction.
Gregory Simmons, 44, was assaulted with a baseball bat and stabbed when he tried to clear the crowd from his property, police said. He was flown to Shock Trauma in Baltimore, and police records say doctors found that a stab wound to his back left him paralyzed from the waist down.
A 16-year-old girl and 22-year-old Sharmina Brooks, of Pennsylvania, were also assaulted during the brawl, police said.
