Six Baltimore City teens have been arrested in beating of Dundalk man.
A video recording anonymously slipped under a school door helped police identify several young people charged with brutally beating a man in Dundalk last month.
Baltimore County officers worked with administrators at Baltimore Community High School to identify those allegedly responsible for attacking the 61-year-old man on April 22, according to charging documents in the case.
Six Baltimore teens have been arrested. Garry Leroy Baker Jr., 16; Andrew Omar Allen, 15; Yakeem Zavion Wheatley, 15; Mya Lashae Stewart, 15; and Antoine Willie Lawson, 17, have been charged with attempted first-degree murder and other charges. Samtoya Isiah Williams, 17, is charged with first-degree assault and other charges. All have been charged as adults.
Police also have issued a warrant for 20-year-old Keenan Tylike Holloway in connection with the case; he is being held on unrelated charges of theft and vehicle theft in Baltimore City.
Baltimore County officers were called to 45th Street in the Harbor View community about 12:45 p.m., where they found puddles of blood in the street leading to victim Richard Fletcher's home, according to charging documents.
Fletcher was sitting on the porch holding a towel to his head, the documents state. He told police that he and his wife heard a commotion and saw a fight and several juveniles "on his vehicle jumping up and down." When Fletcher tried to stop the fight and get the juveniles off his truck, he was hit from behind, then assaulted by 25 to 30 young men.
Fletcher was hospitalized; his injuries include a brain bleed, nasal fracture, orbital fracture and possible broken ribs, according to charging documents. He has not spoken publicly about the attack, and did not respond to requests for comment.
Neighbors are sponsoring fundraisers and have launched an online campaign to help cover his medical costs.
As police investigated the case, they obtained cellphone footage of the attack, surveillance video and a flash drive with additional video that had been slipped under a door at Baltimore Community High School, an alternative school near the site of the attack. Police say school administrators helped to identify people in the videos, and the principal has acknowledged her students were involved in the attack.
The videos showed several of the teens kicking, punching and stomping on Fletcher, even as he was "on the ground defenseless and unconscious," according to charging documents.
The videos also showed several of the teens reaching into the man's pockets, with one juvenile throwing the victim's empty wallet on the ground.
Neighbors have complained that when students leave the school they cause trouble in the community as they walk to MTA bus stops.
MTA officials said Wednesday they have moved one of the stops closer to the school. Baltimore County police have increased their presence at dismissal.
The school is tentatively scheduled to close in 2017.
Several of the teens charged in the attack have preliminary hearings scheduled for next week. Most do not have attorneys listed in court documents. Allen is represented by the Office of the Public Defender, which declined to comment on the case. Stewart is the only one who has been released from custody, and her mother told The Baltimore Sun that she regrets her role in the attack.
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