The Herald Bulletin

Overnight Update

Local News

July 30, 2010

Man allegedly pulls machete during fist fight

ANDERSON, Ind. — Police are questioning a man who was cut with a machete during a fight on the southeast side of Anderson and a suspect, according to Anderson Police Department Sgt. Shawn Richwine.

Nikki Meyers, 32, said she called police after her boyfriend, Roberto Garcia, 31, was cut with a machete while fighting with his best friend.

“You can fist fight all you want, but there’s no reason to go and pull out knives,” Meyers said, with a background of Anderson police vehicles and onlooking neighbors behind her. “It’s uncalled for.”

Meyers said she had returned to the home in the 800 block of Washington Boulevard on Friday evening to pick up Garcia. She said Garcia and a group of friends were “just hanging out and everything was fine.”

Suddenly, Meyers said, Garcia and his best friend — who she identified as “Loco” — began fist fighting. She said Loco pulled out a pipe and started beating her boyfriend. Garcia, she said, grabbed the pipe and threw it down, continuing to fist fight.

“I guess he (Loco) got scared because he was getting beat too bad, and went into the garage and got a machete,” Meyers said.

She said she tried to drive Garcia away, but Loco was able to cut him before.

Megan McCain said she was sitting on her front porch with friend Michael Thomas, 24, when they saw Meyers run out of the house screaming into a cell phone, “They pulled out a machete.”

“We just thought we would sit out here for a nice evening, and we got a show,” McCain said.

Anderson police, firefighters and paramedics quickly swarmed the scene, McCain and Thomas said.

Eight police vehicles, an ambulance and a fire truck were at the scene Friday at about 8 p.m.

After speaking to the friends, Richwine said Garcia refuted his girlfriend’s claims that Loco was the person who cut him. She said the friends were taken to the department for questioning.

McCain said she heard Garcia tell Meyers not to call the police, but Meyers responded that she already had.

“They may be mad at me, but I don’t care,” Meyers said, adding that her boyfriend did not want to tell police Loco cut him.

MCain and Thomas said the house where the incident happened and the two houses next to it typically have a lot of activity.

“It’s not usually this bad,” Thomas said.

Contact Christina M. Wright, 640-4883, christina.wright@heraldbulletin.com.

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