Officer Assaulted In Columbia Teen Fight: Police

COLUMBIA, MD — An officer was taken to the hospital, a girl was charged and a man was arrested after authorities were called to a large argument in Columbia over the weekend, police said. The incident took place around noon on Sunday, Nov. 19, in the Village of Owen Brown.

Police were called to the the 6500 block of Overheart Lane for a report of a large argument.

Two groups of teenage girls were arguing, and when police separated them, a 15-year-old girl charged the crowd, including officers, and threw a cup of bleach at them, according to police.

Two people were hit in the face with bleach, police said: One was an officer who was struck in the eye with the chemical, and authorities said he was taken to the hospital, where he was treated and released. A woman who was also struck by the bleach was treated at the scene for minor injuries.

The 15-year-old girl was charged as a juvenile with assault.

A witness reported that before authorities arrived, a man had emerged from a residence and shown that he had a gun, police said. Officers later executed a search warrant at the residence and recovered a pellet gun that was made to look like a handgun, police said.

When officers served the warrant, two people were inside the residence, one of whom was arrested on an open warrant that was unrelated, involving an assault in a neighboring jurisdiction, police said.

The investigation into the incident is ongoing, police said.

Photo of the pellet gun recovered by the Howard County Police Department.