Crime & Safety
Hamburger Beatdown: Three Sentenced in Fight Over Junior Whopper
A woman was attacked by her three friends after one of them accused her of sitting on a hamburger in a northwest Atlanta apartment.
Atlanta, GA β Three women have reached a plea agreement in a case in which they were accused of beating up another woman who sat on one of their hamburgers.
On Feb. 22, 2015, Myriah Pointer and the three defendants were inside an apartment on Northside Drive when she accidentally sat on Chazmyn Donald's sandwich. Prosecutors say Donald, 23, became enraged and began punching and kicking Pointer in the face.
Two other women β Armonni Cofer, 24, and Tekia Strickland, 25 β joined in the assault and actually recorded two minutes of the attack, which would go on for three more hours. The video, which went viral on social media, shows Pointer being punched and kicked 50 times by the defendants.
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Pointer was beaten unconscious twice during the assault. She suffered two black eyes, two chipped teeth, a concussion and multiple abrasions around her face and head. Pointer's attackers also took her cell phone so she couldn't call police and forced her to stay at the location by physically blocking all exits for two hours.
On Tuesday, Donald, Cofer and Strickland pleaded guilty to aggravated assault, aggravated battery, false imprisonment and other related charges.
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Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard was seeking a jail sentence for the defendants, but following their plea, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Craig Schwall sentenced them to five years probation, ordered them to attend 100 hours of anger management counseling and pay $25,000 for restitution.
The hamburger at the center of the case was a Junior Whopper from Burger King.
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