Vicious brawl inside Brooklyn McDonald's caught on camera

Friday, May 15, 2015
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Renee Stoll has the story.

FORT GREENE -- Investigators are looking at surveillance video from inside a Brooklyn McDonald's where a high school student says she was lured and attacked.



The incident happened on Fulton and Flatbush avenues in Fort Greene section just after 2 p.m. Thursday.



Police responded and determined a large fight began outside the restaurant between 17-year-old Elizabeth Congress and another female.



The fight then proceeded inside the McDonald's, where the video shows the two girls pulling each other's hair and punching each other while dozens of onlookers watch, some even cheering.



Congress' parents say she was lured to the restaurant and jumped for no reason.



She was was taken to Brookyn Hospital with a laceration to the head, and her parents say she needs eye surgery and three teeth repaired.



Police confirm there is an active investigation, saying 911 was called but that the crowd had dispersed by the time officers arrived.



A second victim, a bystander who apparently saw the fight, tried to break it up and was attacked by as many as six males, suffered bumps and swelling to the head and refused medical attention.



So far, there are no arrests.