2 men, 2 women are arrested in fatal beating
Police arrested two men and two women Thursday on suspicion of murder in the death of a man who was beaten with an angle-iron bar and wooden sticks just before 2 a.m. near a gas station at Tyler Street and Arlington Avenue.
Police said the unidentified victim had spoken with two women earlier in the night and then got into a fight with two men on Gould Street. After the victim allegedly stabbed one of the men with a knife, all four suspects chased him to the gas station, where he was beaten, police said. He was pronounced dead at Parkview Community Hospital.
Arrested were Gregory Wilson, 22; Christine Cline, 19; and Suzanne Mapes, 18. A fourth suspect, Parker Smith, 21, was being treated at Parkview for knife wounds. He will be booked after he is discharged, police said. All four are from Riverside.
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