Two folks had been taken to l hospitals with minor accidents Saturday after a melee that broke out on the seashore simply north of the Santa Monica Pier, officers mentioned.
Santa Monica Police Watch Commander David Hodgson mentioned 5 folks had been in custody — though none had but been charged with any crimes — after a “mutual fight scenario” on the sand down by the waterline close to Lifeguard Tower 14.
“Two teams began entering into it with one another,” he mentioned. ”They get into this huge altercation.”
Police responded and located one particular person with a non-life-threatening harm per a stab wound. One other particular person had what gave the impression to be a damaged ankle. Each had been taken to hospitals.
5 others had been taken into custody. Police, Hodgson mentioned, are “nonetheless making an attempt to type by way of what occurred.”
He careworn that there isn’t any risk to the general public.
The incident comes a few month after two German vacationers had been stabbed and a 3rd particular person injured in apparently unprovoked assaults close to the Santa Monica Pier in late Might. In that case, a suspect was apprehended.
