(reprint from January 23rd edition of the Lincoln Parish Journal) 

Three men were arrested in Grambling last week after they were allegedly involved in a fight that left a bystander injured.

Grambling Police responded to the TA Express station at the Grambling I-20 interchange regarding several men fighting inside the store on Jan. 16. Officers found a victim whose foot was bleeding heavily. The man said three men were fighting inside the store and one of the men grabbed a fire extinguisher and struck him several times. The three men then left in a dark brown Chevrolet Impala.

The Grambling Fire Department responded to the scene to check on the victim’s injuries.

GPD’s police chief spotted a vehicle matching the description at the Chevron station in Grambling. Upon questioning the man in the car, Jalen J. Jackson, 31, of Jonesboro, admitted he and his cousins were involved in the incident at the TA Express.

Jackson was identified from the surveillance video as the suspect who used the fire extinguisher to attack the victim.

Johnny R. Simmons, 37, of Monroe, and Deaundre M. Davis, 31, of Ruston, went to the Grambling Police Department, where they were questioned and arrested for simple battery and disturbing the peace by fighting.

Jackson‘s bail was set at $10,000. Bail for Davis and Simmons was set at $1,500.

This information has been provided by a law enforcement agency as public information. Persons named or shown in photographs or video as suspects in a criminal investigation, or arrested and charged with a crime, have not been convicted of any criminal offense and are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.