Georgia Brawl Caught On Tape

Everyone actively involved in the brutal Georgia street brawl that led to one teen’s death will be charged with murder, according to police.

Demajhay Bell, 18, was killed in a fight that one witness described to the Daily News as "an atrocity." The street fight started after a mob of 30 to 50 people came to a Hephzibah home to fight a 15-year-old girl, according to ABC affiliate WJBF. So far nine participants have been arrested but one more is wanted and authorities said there may be more arrests to come.

The crowd was armed with bats, pipes and knives, according to the girl’s mother, Eyvette Byrd. The 39-year-old, who has since been charged with murder, said that the fight was the continuation of an ongoing dispute at Glenn Hills High School.

The March 18 melee started around 1:45 p.m. and spilled out onto the street, where it was caught on camera and later posted to YouTube.

The two minutes of footage begins with two women brutally punching and kicking one another on the street.

Onlookers — including men with baseball bats — mill about and a Dodge Charger stops in the middle of the street. The driver pauses before accelerating and attempting to run over people in the crowd.

Even though he spent most of the fight inside a house, at some point in the brawl, Bell went outside and was stabbed in the neck by 21-year-old Demetrius Harris, Jr., according to the Augusta Chronicle. In the video, he can be seen emerging from a home with a gushing neck wound.

Byrd said she tried driving the injured teen to the hospital but got sidetracked after another fight broke out. Bell ended up trying to drive himself before first responders intervened and transported him to help.

Bell died at the hospital Sunday morning. He was not an active participant in the fight.

“He was friends with the person who stabbed him,” Richmond County Sheriff Richard Roundtree told the Augusta paper.

“This is the epitome of a senseless murder.”

Another man, Eric Hall, was also taken to the hospital after a baseball bat shattered his arm,the Chronicle reported.

By the time police arrived on scene, the brawlers had dispersed.

Jackie, a 63-year-old woman who asked to be identified only by her first name, was at home and witnessed the whole thing.

"It was like World War III," she told the News.

"I saw people across the street with hammers. There were 30 to 50 people coming down the road with knives and everything."

The fight lasted nearly half an hour, by her account.

"It was horrible," Jackie said. "It was an atrocity. Kids don’t have no doggone respect."

Normally, the small town of 4,000 is a quiet area, Jackie said — and she's been living there for more than 15 years.

Though she's not scared anymore, Jackie said she was nervous for a few days afterward. "I didn't know if anything more was going to happen," she said

"I've seen some stuff in my life, but not like this."

So far nine people — including Byrd — have been charged in relation to the fight.

Quiauna Henley, 35; Quiasha Henley, 18; A’Lexis Cain, 18; Tyteanna Thomas, 18; Raheem Jones, 19; Myah Dunbar, 18; Demetrius Lamont Harris, 21 and Terry Lee Daniels, 19 have all been charged with aggravated assault and murder.

A warrant has been issued for a tenth person, 18-year-old Eddie Doneal Carter III.

On Friday morning, the county jail said that he was still not in custody.

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