Police are asking for help identifying a group of young males involved in an assault on a couple in Springfield, Missouri.
The Springfield Police Department has released surveillance video of the brutal beating that occurred on Friday August 22.
The couple, Meredith Cole and her boyfriend Alex Vessey, were both treated for serious injuries after the ordeal at a nearby hospital.
Both Mr. Vessey and Ms. Cole suffered major cuts and bruises from the altercation, with Ms. Cole also fracturing her ankle in the fight.
'It was pretty brutal,' she said.
According to KY3 News, the confrontation began when Cole was standing outside of the Outland Ballroom where Vessey was working as a DJ.
She told the station she was approached by the group of men, who began to sexually assault her.
She said she went inside the club to find Vassey and alert him to the assault.
Mr. Vessey and Ms. Cole left the club to try and identify the men who Ms. Cole said assaulted her when they were set upon by a group of six young black males.
Mr. Vessey is punched and kicked repeatedly, while one of the men punches Ms. Cole in the face, knocking her to the ground.
She can be seen repeatedly trying to separate the men from her boyfriend and she is again pushed to the ground.
After most of the young men run away, a white male wearing head-to-toe black and red sneakers runs into the shot and kicks Mr. Vessey multiple times before running off with the rest of the group.
Both Mr. Vessey and Ms. Cole appear to be bleeding from the head and Cole sustained a fractured ankle.
Speaking after the attack, Mr. Vessey said he found the attack 'unbelievable'.
'As soon as we started walking that way, about halfway down, they jumped on top of me,' he told OzarksFirst.com
'She tried to get them off me and they assaulted her too.'
'I wasn't scared,' he added. 'I was just mad that it was happening kind of unbelievable that people act like that.'
Ms. Cole said she fears the gang may strike again.
'Hopefully they get arrested and they're not going to do that to anybody else,' she told the publication.
Police can be seen running after the suspects in hot pursuit, but the group scattered and none of the perpetrators were caught.
The are asking anyone with information to call Crime Stoppers on 869-TIPS.
The Springfield Police Department has released surveillance video of the brutal beating that occurred on Friday August 22.
The couple, Meredith Cole and her boyfriend Alex Vessey, were both treated for serious injuries after the ordeal at a nearby hospital.
Both Mr. Vessey and Ms. Cole suffered major cuts and bruises from the altercation, with Ms. Cole also fracturing her ankle in the fight.
'It was pretty brutal,' she said.
According to KY3 News, the confrontation began when Cole was standing outside of the Outland Ballroom where Vessey was working as a DJ.
She told the station she was approached by the group of men, who began to sexually assault her.
She said she went inside the club to find Vassey and alert him to the assault.
Mr. Vessey and Ms. Cole left the club to try and identify the men who Ms. Cole said assaulted her when they were set upon by a group of six young black males.
Mr. Vessey is punched and kicked repeatedly, while one of the men punches Ms. Cole in the face, knocking her to the ground.
She can be seen repeatedly trying to separate the men from her boyfriend and she is again pushed to the ground.
After most of the young men run away, a white male wearing head-to-toe black and red sneakers runs into the shot and kicks Mr. Vessey multiple times before running off with the rest of the group.
Both Mr. Vessey and Ms. Cole appear to be bleeding from the head and Cole sustained a fractured ankle.
Speaking after the attack, Mr. Vessey said he found the attack 'unbelievable'.
'As soon as we started walking that way, about halfway down, they jumped on top of me,' he told OzarksFirst.com
'She tried to get them off me and they assaulted her too.'
'I wasn't scared,' he added. 'I was just mad that it was happening kind of unbelievable that people act like that.'
Ms. Cole said she fears the gang may strike again.
'Hopefully they get arrested and they're not going to do that to anybody else,' she told the publication.
Police can be seen running after the suspects in hot pursuit, but the group scattered and none of the perpetrators were caught.
The are asking anyone with information to call Crime Stoppers on 869-TIPS.
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