BEAUMONT, Texas — Beaumont Police have made two more arrests in connection with the attack and beating of a man at a Beaumont gas station early Sunday morning.
Deion Tyrell Brooks, 27 and Michael Tyrone Williams III, 26, both of Beaumont, were arrested after police released surveillance photos of them on Thursday asking for the public's help in identifying them.
Brooks was arrested Thursday night and has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and is being held on a $250,000 bond according to a Friday news release from police.
Williams, who was arrested Friday morning, has been charged with aggravated robbery and is being held on a $500,000 bond police said.
On Wednesday nine suspects were identified and six arrests were made in the attack at a Shell gas station convenience store in the 3100 block of Concord Rd juts north of Delaware early Sunday.
Police are still searching for three other previously named Beaumont men in connection with the attack. Those three are Tyree Simon, 17, Charles Johnson, 20, and Cameron Guilbeaux, 21.
Four of the men arrested, Dakyrian Beaty, 20, Carl Chopane, 22, Tatum Ellis, 33 and Jalen Foxall, 22, all of Beaumont charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Police, on Thursday morning, clarified those charges saying that each of those four had handguns and while they did not fire them they used them to strike, or pistol-whip, the man who was attacked.
The fight happened on Sunday, Oct. 1 at a Shell gas station off of Concord Road in Beaumont.
Police responded to the scene around 3:29 a.m., Sunday, after receiving calls stating a man was on the ground bleeding from his head, according to a news release from the Beaumont Police Department.
The 22-year-old Conroe man was taken to the hospital in critical condition. The victim was able to speak to police the same day of the incident.
On Wednesday, Oct, 4, Beaumont Police Investigators met with Jefferson County Precinct One Justice of the Peace Ben Collins, who signed nine aggravated assault warrants for the suspects investigators identified.
Bonds were set at $250,000 each.
Beaumont Police Special Assignments Unit has arrested the following suspects:
- Carl Chopane, 22, of Beaumont
- Tatum Ellis, 33, of Beaumont
- Dakyrian Beaty, 20, of Beaumont
- Jalen Foxall, 22, of Beaumont
- Jamaal Petry, 22, of Beaumont
- Jameel Petry, 19, of Beaumont
The following suspects are still at large:
- Tyree Simon, 17, of Beaumont
- Charles Johnson, 20, of Beaumont
- Cameron Guilbeaux, 21, of Beaumont
Multiple arrests, warrants in brutal assault of 22-year-old man at Beaumont gas station
Police say a man pulled a rifle out of his pants and started hitting the victim. More than one gun was involved in the attack.
"They're clearly criminals. They're thugs. I know people don't like to hear people called that, but that's what they are. They're cowards," Beaumont Police Chief Jimmy Singletary tells 12News.
Singletary says some of the suspects don’t have a clue why the victim started to get beat up, they just joined in on the fight.
"Some of these people don't have a clue why they were hitting this guy. They just joined in. It's truly disgusting," he said. "We are not gonna stand for it."
The Shell store owner is being cooperative with police. Officials say this is not the first time that this kind of event has happened at this particular gas station.
"It's been a problem and it's a shame it's gotten this bad. It's never gotten this bad," Singletary said.
Police say Crime Stoppers tips helped them identify some suspects.
The gas station's surveillance camera caught the fight as well as police response to the incident.
"The video is horrible. It's disgusting. It makes all of us up here sick, to have this mob mentality unfold in a parking lot in Beaumont," Singletary said.
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