BEDFORD – On Friday, March 15th, 2024, at 7:20 p.m., Officer Taylor Daugherty responded to the 18th and E Streets area after a report of juveniles fighting in the roadway.
When she arrived, she found a group of juveniles and two adults standing outside a home on the 500 block of 18th Street.
The group told police they had not been involved in an altercation.
After leaving the residence to check the area, Bedford Police Major Clint Swanson advised he had spoken to the caller, and they reported that the juveniles involved in the altercation were in the 500 block of 18th Street. Two juveniles were punching another male juvenile.
Police responded to the home and were again told there was no altercation.
A short time after, dispatch advised a juvenile had been attacked on his way home, and the mother would like to speak with an officer. Major Swanson and Officer Taylor arrived at a home in the 700 block of 25th Street and made contact with a woman outside her residence. She told police her son had been attacked while walking home. The male had blood on the front of his sweatshirt. He was bleeding from his lips, and both sides of his face were red.
The male said he was walking home with his girlfriend when he was attacked on 18th Street. He said two males began yelling at him to come to them. He refused and stayed in the roadway. Then they grabbed him by his backpack and began punching him in the face. He admitted he threw a punch back, and that is when the other male punched him in the nose and the left side of his face. The two males then ran back into a house on 18th Street.
The teen was able to describe to police what the two males were wearing at the time of the incident and was able to identify the two males who attacked him.
Officers again went to the home on 18th Street and detained 18-year-old Brayden Bailey and a 17-year-old male on a charge of battery causing bodily injury. The males continued denying involvement in an altercation and refused to speak to officers.
The 17-year-old was released to his mother with a promise to appear in court on March 20 at 9:00 a.m.
