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Five of the people were arrested within hours or days of the
incident, and two others remained at large on Thursday,
according to the district attorney's office. An eighth person
has been charged separately by prosecutors in a criminal
complaint, rather by a grand jury.
Investigators have not yet identified three others believed to
have been involved in the Jan. 27 melee, the D.A.'s office said.
According to a court filing with the indictment, the people
charged were identified through video taken from surveillance
and police body-worn cameras, as well as from interviews with
witnesses.
The incident erupted when two New York Police Department (NYPD)
officers approached a group of people on the street and told
them to move, leading to a brawl between the defendants and the
officers, prosecutors said.
The district attorney's office identified five of the seven
people in the indictment: Yohenry Brito, Darwin Andrews Gomez-Izquiel,
Yorman Reveron and Kelvin Servita Arocha, who were charged with
second-degree assault and obstruction; and Wilson Juarez, who
was charged with evidence tampering and hindering prosecution.
The identities of and charges against the two others remain
sealed while police search for them, prosecutors said.
(Reporting by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles. Editing by Gerry
Doyle)
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