Authorities say two fights and a roll-over crash at Raymondville are all connected.
Upon arrival at Highway 137 and Farrell Lane on June 25, officers determined that several of the men and women participating in a fight had earlier been involved in a roll-over accident at Highway 137 and McColgin Road investigated by Missouri State Highway Patrol troopers.
A 35-year-old Elk Creek man who was involved in the incidents reportedly told a trooper he had sustained a broken arm in a fight before the accident. Another man hit him with a baseball bat, he said. He was taken to West Plains for treatment.
An investigating deputy determined that the roll-over apparently happened following the first fight when vehicles sped away.
The crash was reportedly caused when a vehicle containing multiple people with bats cut off an SUV being driven by a 20-year-old Raymondville woman, causing her to cross over the centerline and leave the roadway.
A man involved in the incidents told an officer that the extended violence began earlier when another man went to a 50-year-old woman’s Kelly Road residence to look at a truck that was for sale, and the woman began calling his daughter lewd names.