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One person was arrested Saturday after a family brawl broke out at the funeral of an elderly relative in Northern California on Saturday, authorities said. A local report.
Officers responded to reports of a "chaotic altercation" between families at Richmond's Rolling Hills Memorial Park Cemetery Richmond Police Department said .
Eight to 20 of her family members were reportedly armed, leading to a large family brawl reported by SFGate, citing police information. Police said no shots were fired and no guns were found.
Sergeant. Aaron Pomeroy told the outlet that the incident was a "really bad blood" affair between a brother and sister that "goes back many years." family sues for placing wrong body in mother's coffin
Richmond police responded to reports of a large family brawl Saturday at the Rolling Hills Memorial Park cemetery. (Google Maps)
Pomeroy got into an argument with the 36-year-old suspect while his sister was talking, and her boyfriend intervened. I said we got into an argument when I did.
The suspect then jumped in his car and ran over lawns and gravestones, smashing water mains and flooding the lot of the funeral director's grandmother, police said. .
The suspect attempted to hit her sister with a car, but eventually hit another woman, inflicting non-life-threatening injuries and removing the coffin of a dead family member. knocked down, he said.
According to Pomeroy, funeral attendees beat the suspect with canes when he got out of the vehicle, "trying to subdue him."
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Police Suspect Arrested and provided him with treatment for his previous injuries.
The altercation caused an estimated $20,000 in damages, according to authorities.
