A Walmart in Michigan on Labor Day became the site of a wild brawl in which a woman was hit in the head and pepper sprayed by three other female shoppers.
The incident took place at around 9pm at the Walmart location on Mercury Drive in Dearborn, and on Thursday local police announced that they have been able to identify and track down all three participants in the violent altercation.
A statement from the Dearborn Police Department said investigators were working to determine what charges, if any, will be filed in this case. As of Friday morning, their names have not been made public.
Walmart throwdown: The incident took place at around 9pm at the Walmart location on Mercury Drive in Dearborn
Police officers were called to the big-box retailer on Monday night after getting a call about an assault.
When they arrived, they talked to a 35-year-old woman from Pinckney, Michigan, who told them that she got into a verbal spat with two women at the store.
The war of words turned physical when a third suspect walked up to the Pinckney woman from behind and hit her in the head, according to police.
As the victim fell forward, the third suspect took out a canister of pepper spray and sprayed her in the face. All three alleged assailants then fled the store.
The 35-year-old Pinckney woman sustained minor injuries caused by the pepper spray, police said.
The fight was captured on the store’s surveillance video, which shows the victim – a tall, thin woman with long hair – confronting another woman in the right aisle
A few seconds later, two women gang up on the victim, while a third strikes her on the head,
The CCTV footage also shows a man in a white T-shirt coming between the brawlers
One of the three suspects is seen in the grainy video using pepper spray on the victim
Dearborn Police Lt. Gary Mann told Detroit Free Press the argument began after one of the suspect’s young children nearly ran into the victim, after which words were exchanged.
The fight was captured on the store’s surveillance video, which shows the victim – a tall, thin woman with long, dark hair, wearing in a light-colored jacket – confronting another woman.
A few seconds later, two women gang up on the victim, while a third strikes her on the head, then uses pepper spray on her. The CCTV footage also shows a man coming between the brawlers and pulling one of the attackers away from the victim.
‘This type of behavior will not be tolerated in Dearborn,’ said Police Chief Ronald Haddad. ‘I urge the public to come forward and provide us with the identities of these suspects.’
The incident in Dearborn took place a week after a woman shopping at a Walmart in Novi, Michigan, was caught on camera pulling a gun on another shopper during an argument over a notebook.