Violent Assault At Cherry Hill Wawa Caught On Video

CHERRY HILL, NJ - Two women may face upgraded charges in connection with a violent assault at a Cherry Hill Wawa that was captured on video and circulated on social media.

Destiny Davis and Diamond Howard were arrested in the assault at the Route 38 Wawa on Nov. 17, immediately after it happened, Cherry Hill Police Chief William Monaghan. They were initially charged with disorderly conduct and fined $200. However, police are looking to upgrade the charges after seeing a video from the incident that was posted on Facebook. Patch posted the video below.

The video shows one of the women standing on a counter inside the store and spitting on an older woman. Another young woman then comes up to the older woman, spits on her, knocks her to the ground and punches her until an employee breaks up the fight. As they are being separated, a man is trying to help the victim up, but she is disoriented and unable to stand. Information about the victim has not been released, but police say she was treated for injuries to her face and head.

The fight began when the older woman told the younger women not to curse while they were talking in the store, Monaghan said. Police didn’t have video of the incident when they initially arrested the women, but are now looking to upgrade the charges.

“It's an unfortunate incident, and you wonder how someone could do that to another person, to spit on them and assault them just for asking them to stop cursing,” Monaghan said. “It's animalistic, and it's uncalled-for.”

Monaghan said as part of the investigation, police are attempting to identify the person who shot the video.

Image via YouTube video.