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Three women named in fight outside courthouse
| Wednesday, Jul 23 2008 2:21 PM
Last Updated: Thursday, Jul 24 2008 7:26 AM
Three Bakersfield women arrested after a brawl broke out in front of the downtown courthouse Tuesday have been identified by the Kern County Sheriff’s Department.
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Quemesha Ellis, 21, and Jamika Walker, 20, were arrested on suspicion of fighting in public and resisting arrest.
Karnesha Sawyers, 28, was arrested on one count of suspicion of fighting in public.
The fighting broke out at just after 11 a.m. outside the glass doors of the county justice building at Truxtun and Chester avenues.
Sheriff’s deputies assigned to Kern County Superior Court used pepper spray to break up the fight.
What apparently began inside the courthouse as a verbal exchange between two families escalated into a physical confrontation outside.
Other women who were not arrested were left wiping pepper spray residue from their eyes following the incident.
A witness said the women had been attending a hearing for 21-year-old Michael Montgomery, who is accused of driving drunk and ramming his vehicle into a tree earlier this year, killing two passengers in the car.
The incident apparently erupted between members of the victims’ families and the defendant’s supporters.