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Wild videos show bloody NYC street brawl spill out of house and onto street with 6 slashed
Wild videos show a knock-down, drag-out street brawl that left six people slashed and bloodied after an early morning dispute spilled out from a Brooklyn home with more than 30 migrants living inside.
Doorbell camera and onlooker footage exclusively obtained by The Post show a chaotic fracas Sunday that originated from a troublesome Gerritsen Beach home and ran into the surrounding streets — where at least one blade-wielding attacker struck.
The doorbell camera footage shows a ruffian in a dark shirt chase another man while repeatedly making a stabbing motion, before apparently hacking his way through a group of people.
As the stabbing unfolded, a group of women and young children fled from the home – which has been a hotspot for non-stop partying that continued over the weekend — and took cover under a deck, a neighbor told The Post.
“There were 12 adult ladies clutching little babies and six kids under 15 all jammed under the deck here,” said the man, an FDNY firefighter who lives two doors down but did not want to be named. “I felt so bad for them.”
Cops arrested 19-year-old Erick Caiza Iza and leveled assault, menacing and weapons charges against him for his role in the melee.
Video taken from a neighbor’s window shows the brawl move from the Fane Street house near Devon Avenue and into the roadway.
“They were fighting and they came out onto the avenue and they continued fighting and it was getting worse and worse, about 15 of them pushing, head-butting each other,” another male neighbor, who did not want to be named, told The Post.
“Then they were kicking and punching this one guy. I thought they were going to kill him.”
The videos obtained by The Post match the neighbor’s description of the massive fight.
At one point, just as the fracas appears to cool down, a hooligan in a white t-shirt takes off his baseball hat and head butts another man.
The pair trade punches until the white-shirt-clad bruiser is restrained, only to have his pugilistic place taken by yet another man wearing a white t-shirt, who wallops the headbutted fighter.
The fight then turned into a chaotic street-spanning scrum, with groups of fighters splitting off.
The knife brawl, which unfolded about 6:20 a.m., left a 30-year-old woman and a 27-year-old man slashed in the face, a man in his 30s knifed in the neck and wrist, a 16-year-old slashed in the arm, and a 19-year-old man and a 29-year-old woman slashed in their hands, police said.
All six were hospitalized in stable condition, cops said.
Residents on the block said the house where the dispute started has 31 migrant adults and children living there and has become a nuisance in the neighborhood.
About nine months ago, less than ten people were in the home before it ballooned to 31, the firefighter said.
“Usually they’ll end at 11 p.m. on the weeknights,” he said. “Weekends they’ll go bananas — it’s all night.”
The celebration Saturday night into Sunday was a birthday party, the neighbor said.
The large group was finally all removed from the property following the stabbing with the NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit uncovering sheetrock partitions that carved up the home “like a honeycomb of little rooms,” the firefighter said.
During the search by ESU, officers found three kids hidden in one of the closed-off partitions.
Neighbors had called about the problem house for six months, but to no avail, the firefighter noted.
Some women who returned to the house Monday told The Post in Spanish they recently entered the United States from South America.
The firefighter and another neighbor, Chris Hanna, said the men living in the house are behind shoplifting from nearby stores and the kids would swipe items from residential properties with piles of Walgreens items on the now vacant property.
“The kids that are living in this house, they’ve been stealing the Amazon packages right off people’s porches and going into people’s yards and stealing bicycles,” Hanna, 47, said.
“A lot of neighbors have had to go bang on the door and say your kids are stealing our stuff, we got it on camera. give us our stuff back or we’re calling the cops.”
“We’re all scared they’re going to let these people move back in here,” he added.
The male neighbor who witnessed the slashing Sunday morning said he feels bad for the kids who lived at the house.
“There is no parental supervision at all. They got little kids watching little kids,” the local said. “I keep watching this little boy less than 2 years old running out in between the cars out into the street and the car slamming on their brakes.”
Additional reporting by Melanie Marich