Reggie Ray, 42, became the fifth person charged in the violent melee, though police previously stated more arrests could be handed down in the next few days.
, Allen Todd, 23, and Zachary Shipman, 25, were arrested earlier this week and all charged with assault.
Authorities had been on the hunt for Ray since identifying him as the man who used the chair to whack at least two white boaters after they launched an unprovoked attack on black riverboat co-captain Damien Pickett on the Montgomery Riverfront. The group was retaliating after catching Pickett trying to move their pontoon boat, which they had illegally parked in a designated docking spot for the city-owned Harriott II riverboat, which was trying to offload its 200 passengers, police said.Facebook/@Stephen Quinnpouncing on Pickett in a WWE-style takedown that involved punching, kicking and shoving.
The epic fight escalated when Pickett’s coworkers and other bystanders jumped to his rescue, according to police. The brawl ended with people thrown into the river, several in handcuffs and a viral video of the massive brawl.Several adults punched, kicked and shoved Pickett.Though the fighting groups appeared to split along racial lines — with some witnesses alleging that members of the pontoon party screamed the N-word before instigating the melee — police ruled that it was not racially motivated.
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