3 Baws in Marigny beating involving brass knuckles, racial slur

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The beating was reported to NOPD about 3:51 a.m. Nov. 4, a Sunday,

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Police have obtained warrants of aggravated second-degree battery for Matthew Adam Vining, Stone Michael Linden and Bobby Lee McCollister, all 23,

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According to a news release issued last week, someone in a vehicle honked their horn at the group in the 1400 block of Decatur Street because the three men were “standing in the street” and “refused to move.” After the driver honked his horn, the three men “allegedly approached the victim’s vehicle and shouted racial slurs,” the release states.

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When the group approached his car, the driver got out of his vehicle “with a stick,” police said, and the three men then “began to attack the victim, striking him with closed fists, brass knuckles and a beer bottle about the head.”

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