BALDWIN PARK : Fight Starts on Freeway, Ends With Beating of 6
A fight between carloads of men that began on a freeway early Wednesday morning ended in Baldwin Park with six victims beaten, stabbed and strewn on city streets.
“It was vintage Baldwin Park,” said Police Sgt. Bob Curtis. “It was like back in the old days when gangs used bumper jacks and tire irons.”
The fight was not gang-related, Curtis said. It began shortly before 1 a.m., when about five men in two cars caught up with six men in two other cars and the groups exchanged words as they sped north on the San Gabriel River Freeway from the San Bernardino Freeway.
The cars left the freeway at Barnes Avenue and Ramona Boulevard and a fight ensued in which members of one side stabbed and beat the others with baseball bats and chains. The assailants fled, leaving behind injured men lying on side streets, on the road dividers and in a nearby mini-mart. The victims were taken to two local hospitals, treated and released.
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