Two juvenile sisters were arrested after getting into a fight that sent the younger one to the hospital.
An Ocala Police officer was called Thursday to the Village Green Apartments, 500 SW 33rd Ave., about a fight that left multiple people injured with one female bloody and passing out on the scene. The girls’ names and ages were not released because they are minors.
The older girl told the officer she had been in a fight with her little sister. She said received a phone call from her mother asking her to go from the family’s apartment to another apartment and ask her sister to come home, according to the police report.
The older girl said she and her sister, who was hanging out with a family friend, got into a verbal argument about the younger girl coming home or staying and hanging out with the adults in the complex. The argument quickly escalated into a physical fight between the sisters, the report said.
The older girl said she and her sister both fell to ground, and her sister hit her face on the concrete. She said her sister started to pass out and bleed from scrapes on her forehead and nose area. The older girl said she was only acting in self-defense because her sister attacked her first, according to the report.
The officer spoke to the younger girl at AdventHealth, where she was taken for her injuries. She said her sister came over and started immediately screaming at her. She said her sister walked up to her and “gave her the middle finger” and in doing so, touched her face. The younger girl said she felt threatened and she fought back, and that’s when the two sisters started fighting, the report said.
Both sisters showed signs of injury. Unable to establish a primary aggressor in the altercation, the officer placed both under arrest, one for simple domestic battery and the other for domestic child abuse. Several previous domestic altercations between the sisters have been documented by Ocala Police.