New details reported in mobile home park brawl
Onslow County Sheriff Ed Brown released more details Tuesday about Sunday’s mobile home brawl that left five people injured - two shot, two stabbed and one beaten with a 2-by-4 board.
Sgt. Richard Baumgarner interviewed Dontuey C. Danley, one of the gunshot victims, still recovering at Pitt Memorial Hospital Monday. Danley told Baumgarner that the fray was not about child custody like Carlis Sample, one of the suspects arrested in the fight, had told police.
Danley said Carlis Sample had been pushing for a fight all weekend, beginning at a club early Saturday night.
Carlis Sample wanted to fight his ex-girlfriend, Terri Hayes, so bad that he sent a taxi cab to pick her and some friends up and bring them to his home on Swain Loop Road, Danley told Baumgarner. Danley, Hayes and other friends took the taxi to Carlis Sample’s home and beat him down, Danley told Baumgarner.
Sunday afternoon, Carlis Sample, his current girlfriend America Batten, his brother Marlyn Sample and others showed up at the Whispering Pines mobile home park to retaliate, Brown said.