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BALTIMORE (Map, News) - The mother of a teenage suspect in the Edgewood brawl was denied bond Thursday after being charged with beating a neighbor left paralyzed from the waist down.
“Witnesses said the defendant violently and repeatedly struck the victim in the head and body with a baseball bat,” prosecutor Alison Carver said, requesting that Natasha Fowlkes be held without bond.
Fowlkes, 44, has been charged with attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder. She remained in the Harford County Detention Center during a bond hearing, as Judge Mimi Cooper spoke to her through an audio connection.
As many as 50 people fought Sunday evening outside a house in the 1900 block of Eloise Lane. There, police say, 44-year-old homeowner Gregory Simmons was beaten with a baseball bat and stabbed in the back, leaving him partially paralyzed. A 17-year-old girl and 22-year-old woman also were injured.
Shamere Germany, Fowlkes’ 16-year-old daughter, and three other teenage girls, also were being held without bond in connection with the melee.
At the bond hearing, Fowlkes’ mother and Germany’s grandmother, Bennie Clayburne, disputed the police account.
Clayburne said Fowlkes and Germany had waded into the crowd to break up the fight, not participate in it, and tried to help Simmons.
“If it hadn’t been for us, that man might not only be paralyzed, he might be dead,” Clayburne said.
Police said the fight started when the group came to Simmons’ house to confront a resident about her relationship with a neighbor.
But Clayburne said the feud began at Fowlkes’ house Saturday when Simmons’ daughter criticized another girl’s clothes.
Most of those involved in the fight had come from out of town for the Thanksgiving weekend, and Simmons brought from his house the weapons used to beat him two other residents, Clayburne said. The girls picked up the weapons as they fled the scene, running not from the police but from gunfire, Clayburne said.
Germany and the three other girls, ages 15 to 17, have been charged with attempted murder, assault and malicious destruction of property. They had been stopped by police while apparently fleeing from the fight in a car that had bats and knives in it, said Sgt. Christina Presberry, Harford County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman.
Police have issued warrants for four others in connection with the brawl.
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Examiner Reader said:
I personally know the Huff family. Have known them my whole life. They are far from the "savages" and "beast" you have portrayed them to be. Noone knows what really happend that day or anything about there family. So therefore noone should make a comment. I think it is wrong for people to judge them about this situation. When you get to know them they are the nicest most caring giving people you could every know. Celestine is a great mother to her kids and all the kids in the neighborhood. So before you guys began to judge on what you think you know figure out the whole story.
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Examiner Reader said:
Message to the Defendant/Fugitive Otis Huff. Otis, Congratulation on making the 10 most wanted list in Harford County. My name is Agent Orlando and I am a fugitive investigator with 12 years experience and close to 5,000 arrests. I write this because I urge you to turn yourself in and face the charges that are pending against you in a court of law. You are considered to be armed and dangerous and will be treated accordingly. You put yourself and others in great danger by being on the run as a fugitive. I know that I just missed you at your family’s house in North Carolina (surprised). I bet that you didn’t expect that right? I found some of your things there. The long arm of Johnny law can reach out and get you wherever you may run. It’s true what they say, ‘You can run, but you can not hide" besides running only makes u go to jail tired. Sorry 4 what the SWAT team did to your fanily's house in NC and your cousin 4 resisting SWAT's entry, but there is more 2 come as u are wanted
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Examiner Reader said:
I deal with these dirtbags all the time, they are all gang members and don't care about anything. I hope they lock these animales up for a long time or maybe we will get lucky and they will die in jail.
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Examiner Reader said:
Bobo? Mimi? Sweetie? Are these people, or a troup of performing chimps?
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Lisa in Baltimore said:
It's not better jobs and true economic opportunity that is going to "STOP CRIME". It starts with raising your children properly from Day One! The difference between right and wrong. The value of human life, manners, responsibility!
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Examiner Reader said:
Ok, let play Family Feud. "Survey Says, life with no parole."
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Examiner Reader said:
Just another Baltimore Thanksgiving tradition. There's nothing that says "thank you" more than inviting the family over to administer a beating to the neighbor.
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And you wonder why us folk in Canton said:
Why we want no part of Canton Middle turning into a high school. No way.
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a thinker said:
so the defense and prosecution say these girls were egged on by their mother? Geez, that's one heck of a mom there folks. Way to teach the children.
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Examiner Reader said:
I grew up in Edgewood back when it was all farms and safe to go out at night. In August two young black males jumped me in the middle of the day on a busy street and beat the crap out of me. A black man stopped and took me to a hospital, he had saw what happened and was more upset about it me. I missed five weeks of work. The police have a lot of work ahead of them to get this under control but for now my attitude is 7 down a few hundred to go.
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Examiner Reader said:
White people are just plum crazy. It seems that they are always hurting each other. They don't seem to have any morals. With Fathers Day being a crazy mystery it seems most crime just has to be committed by those questionable whites. Beware of people driving in VW Jettas, they may be carrying a gun.
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Examiner Reader said:
I thought they moved those people out of the inner city to Edgewood so that they'd become law-abiding, gainfully employed citizens. I guess the theory of putting a few rotten apples into a bushel of good apples to clean them up doesn't work.
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Examiner Reader said:
law abiding citizens of all races stand against crime, violence and destruction of property. Edgewood is a good community of hard working people. Crime is higher there due to higher concentration of poor people with not avenue to grow out of it. better jobs and true economic oportunity will remedy the problems of crime.
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Examiner Reader said:
The medical expenses involving these people who are seriously injured in their everyday violent living, are paid by the law abiding citizens. When are these savages going to become civilized so that the good citizens are not burdened further as a result of their rotten behavior. Our taxes go up every year because of these savages; and I, for one, am damn sick and tired of it. Just let them die!
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