[DM] - The incident happened Sunday in the area of Pershing Avenue Park in Poughkeepsie, and ended with a filmed, bloody beating east of Pershing Ave
- It resulted in the arrests of two men - Rakim Paulin and Jeremy Taylor - both of whom had been driving the wrong way before the series of altercations occurred
- Each are facing charges of felony assault, after a bystander filmed one of the men beating a victim with a bat
Police in the city - which for years has been plagued by gang violence - are now trying to piece together what happened, using the now viral bystander footage as evidence.
Meanwhile, others who witnessed the mayhem are now being questioned by the department, which on Wednesday said it was still trying to sort through the incident's aftermath.
In a tentative statement, local lawman gave their account of what they believe happened, revealing that police reported a 'disturbance' Sunday at 3:10 pm.
The disturbance, the department said, occurred after two vehicles were seen speeding down Pershing Avenue Park, with one of them striking two people and another vehicle.
That's when the violence broke out, cops said - culminating in the partially filmed bloodbath that have since circulated on social media.
While it remains unclear who exactly did what to whom, lawmen said that several people were assaulted, with one of the persons struck stabbed with a knife, and the other beaten repeatedly with a baseball bat.
The stabbing was not captured on any of the clips online, but the brutal beating was - and shows one of the suspects, clad in a white T-shirt, used both hands to bludgeon an already motionless victim repeatedly.
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