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Hall and Perez
Law enforcement officers arrested two women Tuesday after they reportedly dragged a 16-year-old out of her car in a San Mateo store parking lot and beat her, according to the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office.
The agency charged Palatka woman Brianna Simone Hall, 24, and Satsuma woman Priscilla Lee Perez, 22, both with felonies for burglary and cruelty toward a child. Perez was released from the Putnam County Jail on Thursday afternoon but Hall still remained in the jail, records show.
Witnesses stated they saw a young female, later identified as the 16-year-old, being attacked by four people through the window while sitting in the driver’s seat of a maroon Ford Fusion, the incident report stated. Officials later identified two of the attackers as Hall and Perez, while two others are listed as minors.
“They then pulled (the victim) out of the vehicle and stomped on her while she was lying defenseless on the pavement,” a witness told authorities.
The victim reportedly tried to get back into the Ford Fusion but drove the vehicle into the south side of the Dollar General in San Mateo because Hall and Perez were trying to remove the 16-year-old from the car again.
One of the minors, a female, was struck by the vehicle and landed on the pavement, the incident report states. From there, the female minor’s teenage brother jumped on top of the victim’s car and kicked the windshield, causing it to shatter, witnesses told the reporting officers.
Hall and Perez removed the victim again from the vehicle after it crashed into the building “at which point they began to beat (the victim),” the sheriff’s office report states.
The two minors and the victim were transported to HCA Florida Putnam for their injuries, the sheriff’s office stated. Charges for the two minors are being forwarded to the Juvenile Crime Prevention Office. The male minor was charged with criminal mischief and the female minor was charged with battery. Both are misdemeanors. The case, according to the sheriff’s office, will be reviewed by the sheriff’s office’s Juvenile Crime Prevention Office and the charges could be eligible for civil citations.