Several people on both sides were beaten and injured in a confrontation between a group of teenagers and a group of adults in West Kelowna on Sunday evening (August 9).
The West Kelowna RCMP received a report around 5:30 p.m. of an altercation involving several people along Pritchard Drive. Upon arriving at the scene, officers spoke to both the teenagers and adults.
“After examining the conversation with the people involved, as well as the on-site witnesses, and reviewing the taped videos showing part of the incident, it was found that both groups challenged each other, which led to an altercation,” said Const. Solana Pare.
Individuals from both groups were treated on site by paramedics.
In a now-deleted Facebook post, Jenn Lamont shared her side of the story – and her frustration with the RCMP response.
She claimed her husband Monti Rosenbaum and boyfriend Scott Pridmore were outside on her deck when they heard children outside “screaming and cursing and causing problems”.
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After asking the boys to hold it down, she said things were out of control.
Lamont, who had been to the grocery store, came home to find the teenagers and her husband in a physical altercation.
“We drove to the scene where these boys attacked my husband and boyfriend and my five-year-old daughter was traumatized,” she wrote on her Facebook.
At this point, Lamont began filming the incident, but one of the children grabbed her cell phone.
“I chased him and one of the others tripped me and threw me on the sidewalk,” she wrote.
Lamont, Rosenbaum, and Pridmore suffered injuries, including black eyes and cuts, during the confrontation.
When the RCMP arrived, Lamont said the officers were not of much help, claiming she had been told the children could not be charged “because they are minors”.
“The moral of the story is that these kids can attack you in broad daylight and get away with it. And if I return the favor, they can incriminate me. There is something very flawed with this system. ” She wrote.
Despite the woman’s claims, Const. Pare declared criminal charges can be brought against anyone aged 12 and over if there is evidence of a criminal offense.
Pare said the incident was being investigated further.
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