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6 arrested after backyard fight in Lethbridge; shovel and bat seized

Lethbridge Police Service headquarters is shown in Lethbridge, Alta., on Wednesday, March 10, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/David Rossiter

Six people were taken into custody and three charged in connection to a backyard assault in Lethbridge on Tuesday, police said.

At around 8 p.m., Lethbridge police responded to a group of people fighting in a backyard along the 1000 block of 12th Street South.

Officers found a 35-year-old man injured in the alley. He was taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

People inside the home refused to come out, according to police, so they “obtained and executed a warrant” to go inside. Six people were arrested.

Police seized a shovel and baseball bat believed to have been used in the assault, Lethbridge police said in a Thursday news release.

The people involved know each other, police said.

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Tiffany Joy Hood, 45, of Lethbridge, was charged with aggravated assault, assault with a weapon and possession of an offensive weapon.

Jocko Slade Trotter, 36, of Lethbridge, was charged with aggravated assault, assault with a weapon and possession of an offensive weapon.

Jyi Mickell Trotter, 44, of Lethbridge, was charged with aggravated assault, assault with a weapon, possession of an offensive weapon and two counts of failing to comply with a release order.

All three were set to appear in court on Thursday.

A 29-year-old woman was charged with offences unrelated to the assault and two other females were released without charges, police said.

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