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Murphy Brawl Could've Been Prevented

Murphy Brawl Could've Been Prevented

News Five has learned two teens charged in Wednesday's Murphy High School brawl would not have even been at the school if the principal had his way.


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Four teenagers were arrested and one teacher was injured in an early morning brawl on a high school campus.
Police responded to Murphy High School around 7am Wednesday. Investigators say four teenage girls used a broomstick, a piggy bank and a bottle to beat each other up.
Two of the teens were taken to the Strickland Youth Center. They face juvenile charges.
The other two are charged as adults with felony assault.
Police say Dynesha and Dykesha Harris, both 17, injured a teacher who was trying to break up the fight.
Murphy High School principal Doug Estle says he saw this fight coming. Estle tells News Five the Harris kids are involved in an ongoing dispute with another family.
The twins are the sister of a former Murphy High School student, Dominick Harris, who was charged with assaulting a teacher last year. Dominick Harris was expelled from Murphy after the attack, and Estle attempted to have his sisters transferred to another school. But, the transfer was stopped by Mobile City Councilman Fred Richardson.
Richardson wrote letters to the Mobile County School Board, the school superintendent and the NAACP, calling Estle's reason for wanting to transfer the twins "inadequate" and saying it "lacked substance."
Richardson refused to do an on camera interview with News Five after the girls were arrested Wednesday, but on the telephone he said he simply wrote the letters to help a constituent.
Dynesha and Dykesha Harris face up to 10 years in prison if they're convicted of felony assault.
Dominick Harris is in jail awaiting a trial for the May 2007 teacher attack that seriously injured 61-year-old Melinda Rudisill. Dominick Harris also faces an unrelated reckless endangerment charge for a drive by shooting earlier this month.

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