Baltimore County Police continue to investigate the brutal assault of a Dundalk man last week by a group of teenagers that has outraged the community.
Police arrested a 15-year-old girl last week and expect to make more arrests, said Cpl. John Wachter, a police spokesman.
The 61-year-old man was badly beaten by a group of teens when he intervened in a fight between girls outside his home on 45th Street last Wednesday and was hospitalized at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.
"Two girls were fighting. He sees them out by his car and he just wants them to leave, 'Move on. Don't fight on my car.' And he gets beat up pretty good," Wachter said.
The Harbor View Neighborhood Association has called a community meeting for 7 p.m. Wednesday at Baltimore Community High School, a nearby alternative school that's just across the city line. The girl who was arrested is a student at the school, and neighbors say they have complained about bad behavior from the school's students for years.
School officials are expected to discuss plans to limit interactions between students and the community, said Melissa Allen, vice president of the neighborhood association.
Allen said the school's administrators have been responsive to the neighborhood's concerns. A school system spokeswoman did not respond to questions from The Baltimore Sun.
"They need to come up with something to ensure everyone's safety," Allen said.
Allen said problems usually happen when students are dismissed in the afternoons and they walk from the school to Maryland Transit Administration bus stops in the community.
"We've had several instances of assault. The kids are disrespectful and unruly," Allen said.
Allen said frustration has mounted in the neighborhood since last week's assault. She hopes the meeting will be orderly and productive.
In the meantime, the neighborhood association has worked with the victim's family to set up an online fundraising campaign at gofundme.com/harborview. The hospital said Monday he is no longer being treated there, but a picture of the man in the hospital with a swollen and bruised face circulated on Facebook.
"This poor innocent man has been brutally beaten," Allen said.
Anyone with information about the assault is asked to call police at 410-307-2020 or Metro Crime Stoppers at 1-866-7LOCKUP.
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