Six people have been arrested after an ongoing social media feud turns to blows in St. Augustine.
Marquietta Elmore, 33, Lashet Johnson, 39, Tamera Johnson, 21, Anaya Oxendine, 19, Makayla Oxendine, 20, and Kanisha Singleton, 23, were arrested for battery after the Halloween night attack.
Two people, Lashet Johnson’s nephew and his girlfriend, were attacked, according to police.
St. Augustine police responded to Martin Luther King Avenue, where they found the female victim with a visible knot on the right side of her head and a busted bottom lip.
The victim says Tamera Johnson, Kanisha Singleton, Marquietta Elmore, and Makayla Oxendine got out of a vehicle while she was walking on MLK and hit her with a crowbar, bats and glass bottles. They also kicked her, the police report says.
The victim's boyfriend told police he was walking home from trick-or-treating when Kanisha Singleton, Tamera Johnson and Lashet Johnson got out of a car and started hitting him with bottles.
They then allegedly surrounded him and started punching and kicking. He told police that while he was being attacked, he also saw the other victim being punched by Makayla Oxendine, Anaya Oxendine, and Marquietta Elmore, according to the arrest report. The victim suffered lacerations to his torso consistent with being stabbed.
A witness at the scene told police he saw a female victim get hit to the ground and attacked while she was still down. He then saw a male victim being hit by what appeared to be glass bottles, before all of the suspects involved drove off.
Police say the problems started Monday night as a continuation of a feud taking place on social media between the female victim and Lashet Johnson.
The incident report from Monday night's disturbance says the female victim and Lashet Johnson got in a fight outside a family member’s home on Oneida Street. There was no clear reason in the incident report for why the fight broke out.
Police say there was not enough information to determine who was the primary aggressor Monday night and that it appeared to have been mutual, so there were no arrests.