Mom Brings Bat to Grad Party Brawl, Police Say

Norristown Police have announced the arrest of 31-year-old Lakeisha Boyd, of Pottstown, in connection with a fight at a graduation party on West Marshall Street early Saturday morning.

Police were dispatched to the 600 block of West Marshall Street for a report of shots fired, but upon arrival, the scene had been vacated. Moments later, police began to receive several phone calls from victims stating that they had been struck in the head with a metal bat while attempting to break up a fight at that location, according to the police report.

The report states that at least two girls began to assault another girl at the graduation party, at which time four juvenile females attempted to break up the fight. The mother of one of the attackers, identified as Lakeisha Boyd, allegedly went to her vehicle to retrieve a metal bat, which she used to repeatedly strike the four juvenile females, police said.

Boyd then grabbed her daughter and the other attackers, and left the scene in her vehicle, the report states.

Three of the four juvenile females were taken to Einstein Medical Center, with two of them sustaining head injuries and one sustaining a large hematoma.
Brown was not found at the scene.

A short time later, police were dispatched to the intersection of West Basin and Locust streets for a disturbance, which was later upgraded to a shooting. In that incident, a female victim sustained a single gunshot wound to the back of her left thigh while sitting on her porch, according to the report. 

While police were investigating that shooting, they made contact with Boyd, who was on the scene. A witness who allegedly saw Boyd assaulting the juvenile females with the metal bat on West Marshall Street was transported to the shooting scene, where she positively identified Boyd as the bat-weilding attacker, police said.

As a result, Boyd was charged with a felony count of aggravated assault, as well as the lesser charges of simple assault, simple assault with a weapon, reckless endangerment, harassment and possession of an instrument of crime.
Following her arrest, police retrieved the bat from Boyd's vehicle, the report states.

Editor's note: a previous version of this story indicated that a Lansdale man was involved in the incident, as stated by the police report. The man has since been cleared of involvement by police, so we have removed his name from the story.