Police flagged down for help encountered a pregnant woman covered in blood outside Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center late last month.
Following an investigation, the woman, Brittany Brooks, was booked Wednesday at the Volusia County Jail on aggravated battery charges. Brooks, 24, is accused of attacking a neighbor with a knife. Police said Brooks slashed the woman while the victim was holding a baby.
The blood on Brooks' clothes came from the wounds suffered by the person she had attacked, Sarah Bersche, 22, of Daytona Beach, authorities said.
Daytona Beach police first saw Brooks sitting in the passenger seat of a car heading toward the hospital. The man she was with, Shawn Reynolds, flagged down a detective at the corner of LPGA and Clyde Morris boulevards and told him to meet him at the hospital at 301 Memorial Medical Parkway, according to an arrest report.
Reynolds, 26, who had an abrasion on his lip, told authorities he and his girlfriend, Brooks, had just been involved in a fight in the area of Bishop Butts Circle near Derbyshire Road, the report stated. Authorities said Reynolds told them that he and Brooks acted in self-defense.
Four other witnesses were later interviewed by the Volusia County Sheriff's Office and they told detectives that Reynolds and Brooks attacked them unprovoked. They also said Brooks, who was armed with a pocket knife, slashed a woman who was holding a baby, deputies said.
Reynolds also is accused of punching another female in the face during the confrontation, according to the report. The woman who was punched required staples, which will "likely cause permanent disfigurement," the report stated.
Reynolds was arrested May 25 on aggravated battery and simple battery charges. He also was charged with violation of probation in connection with a 2015 conviction of fleeing and eluding. He remains jailed without bail.
Brooks, who was six or seven months pregnant when the crime occurred, was arrested Wednesday after the State Attorney's Office reviewed the case against her, according to the Sheriff's Office.
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