Scottsdale police have identified the individuals involved in a massive brawl that was caught in a Bath & Body Works on Saturday at the Fashion Square Mall in Arizona.
ARIZONA BATH & BODY WORKS TURN IN SLUGFEST BETWEEN CUSTOMERS, EMPLOYEES
According to a report by Fox 10 Phoenix, the suspects involved were identified as 25-year-old Briana Johnson and 45-year-old Johlyn O’Daniel.
“Interviews were conducted with witnesses, subjects involved and surveillance videos were responded to by officers,” the SPD said in a statement to Fox 10 on Monday. “Based on the evidence, it was established that the possible cause exists for the indictment of Johnson and O’Daniel for the offenses of assault and disorderly conduct.”
A Twitter user who took the video claims that the incident took place after the woman in the video argued with another customer after she stood too close. The user added that the employees of Bath & Body Works tried to aggravate the situation, but that the customer would not leave, adding that the woman was ‘hard and cooperative the whole time before the fight started.’
Sergeant Kevin Quon, spokesman for the Scottsdale Police Department, told Fox News on Sunday that the incident was started about someone cutting into the queue and that it was “not mask or race related.”
Footage of the incident begins with a woman fighting with a female employee before another employee joins in and tackles the customer on the ground.
The woman shouts, “Let me go,” while another customer and two other staff members intervene hastily. The group can be seen fighting on the ground, shouting at each other and pulling hair before the male staff grabs one of the women and pushes them to the door and tells them, “Go out now!”
The man pushed the woman involved in the initial wrestling match by force, to the door and repeated, “Now out!”
The woman tells the male employee to stop touching her and says she will not go until she gets her wallet before she is brought out of the store.
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A spokesman for L Brands, the parent company of Bath & Body Works, told Fox News that it was “deeply concerned about the incident in one of our stores” and that the company is currently investigating the matter in partnership with local law enforcement. “
By Monday afternoon, the video had more than 199,000 likes and 34,000 retweets.