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Another Suspect Charged In Brooklyn McDonald's Brawl That Left Girl, Man Injured

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Another suspect was charged Wednesday in a brawl last week at a McDonald's in Brooklyn, in which a teenage girl and a man who tried to step in were injured.

Roget O'Neill, 17, of Brooklyn was charged with gang assault, police said. He was allegedly involved in the attack on Iver Whittingham, 43, a Good Samaritan who tried to stop the brawl at the McDonald's on the Flatbush Avenue Extension in Downtown Brooklyn.

Another defendant, Amir McCants, 24, of Brooklyn, was charged Tuesday with inciting a riot. He is the man heard in the video repeatedly yelling "kill him," referring to Whittingham, police said.

The fight took place around 3 p.m. Thursday at the McDonald's on the Flatbush Avenue Extension in Downtown Brooklyn. Teenage girls can be seen on the video punching and pulling each other's hair and rolling around on the floor for several minutes.

Whittingham is then seen stepping into the fray trying to break it up.

"Back up. Do not fight," he says.

That's followed by some back and forth shoving, and the man appears to throw a punch, at which point the crowd turns on him, and he is mobbed by teens throwing punches.

Whittingham then runs out of the McDonald's, and the video's narrator, believed to be McCants, can be heard shouting: "Kill him! Why're you not killing him? Y'all gotta kill that old n—-! Y'all gotta kill him! Kill him! Kill him! Kill him right now! Kill him right now! Kill him!"

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Three other suspects were charged earlier.

Kendale Hamilton, 18, has been charged with gang assault in the attack on Whittingham. And Asjaney Naraine, 16, has been charged with assault in connection with the initial fight with another girl.

McDonald's Brawl Suspect
Police are looking for this person in connection with a brawl at a Brooklyn McDonald's. (credit: NYPD)

Another suspect was also taken into custody Tuesday and charged with assault. Authorities arrested a 15-year-old girl for her alleged involvement in the beating of Whittingham. Her name was not released.

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