MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Cellphone video shows a mob smashing a sledgehammer into a car in South Memphis while a baby was inside.
Six family members are in jail for charges like aggravated riot and assault.
One of the victims, Markeisha Roosevelt, said the attackers were her baby’s father’s family, and thinks they were upset because she called police when her baby’s father hit her with a baseball bat.
The riot is disturbing to watch when you find out 6-month-old girl was in the car.
“Don’t hurt my baby. Don’t hurt my baby! My baby is in my hand. My baby in my hand!” Roosevelt said.
She said she was sitting in the backseat with her baby and cousin. They had just pulled up to her mom’s house on East McKellar a couple of weeks ago when a group of adults surrounded the car and tried to get in.
“Trying to hurt us. Like, it was crazy,” Roosevelt said.
Police said one of the men was Marcus Smith, the baby’s father.
Roosevelt said the rest of the group was Smith’s family, and some of them had threatened to use a gun.
“I was scared and nervous,” Shanua Payne, Roosevelt’s mother, said.
Payne was also in the car.
“They were trying to pull my daughter out the door while she had the baby. They broke my glass. The daddy broke it with his sledgehammer, and glass was everywhere,” Payne said.
It gets worse. Police said the mob then pulled Roosevelt and her cousin out of the car, beat them, and took off.
Monday, Kathie Smith, Leslie Adams, Eddie Mae Smith, Katrina Adams, Marcus Smith, and Tangenika Elliot were arrested.
Police are still looking for Enrico Smith.
WREG is told the baby did get some scrapes on her neck, but she is OK.
No word on where Enrico Smith could be as of Monday night.
The other family members are expected in court tomorrow and are being held on a $1,000 bond.