A day after news of the reported Chris Brown-Drake brawl broke, many conflicting reports about the incident still linger.
According to CBS,
some witnesses report hearing shots during the dust-up, but no one
reported seeing a gun. As previously reported, police are now
investigating.
Brown, his girlfriend and his bodyguard Big Pat, pictured below, were
injured during the brawl with members of rapper Drake’s entourage early
Thursday morning at a New York nightclub, police said.
According to TMZ, Big Pat was injured by a bottle thrown by Chris
Brown’s own entourage. Multiple witnesses say he was standing in front
of Brown when the bottles started flying, and someone in Brown’s own
camp fired a bottle intended for Drake’s party, but missed. Instead, the
bottle connected with Big Pat’s face at extremely close range. Pat
ended up suffering the worst injuries of anyone in the club. He received
emergency medical treatment for the wound, but he appeared fine the
next day.
Brown tweeted a photo of himself with a bloody gash on his chin, then
later removed it, as well as other messages about the fight, including
taunts. His rep later released a statement saying the singer and his
girlfriend, model Karrueche Tran, were victims of a “brutal attack.”
A rep for Drake said the star was on his way out of the club when the
altercation began. “He did not engage in any activity which resulted in
injury to person or damage to property,” according to the statement.
Sources told Entertainment Weekly that Drake wasn’t involved in the
fight, but that Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill was. But law enforcement
sources told TMZ that Brown’s lawyer gave police “physical evidence,”
which reportedly shows Drake was involved.
According to the Associated Press, witnesses told police that two men
approached Brown’s table and asked him whether he had a problem with
Drake, and he replied he did not. Later, as Brown was leaving the club,
five men blocked his way on the dance floor and started taking off their
shirts and yelling, police said.
Five bystanders, four women and a man,
also suffered cuts during the fight at the club W.i.P. in Manhattan’s
SoHo neighborhood, police said. Australian tourist Hollie C., 24,
(pictured above) was one of the injured and has since made a video
lamenting her whole ordeal. Brown’s bodyguard suffered a cut to the
head, but all the victims were released from the hospital later
Thursday.
Police were looking for surveillance footage and talking to patrons
who witnessed the melee. No arrests have been made and no complaints
filed, and no one has identified any one person as an assailant, police
said.
“Chris and his party are cooperating with NY authorities who are
pursuing this incident further,” Brown’s representatives said in a
statement.
Neither star was on scene when police arrived around 4 a.m. Thursday.
It’s not clear what prompted the fight. Both Brown and Drake at one
time dated singer Rihanna.
According to the New York Post, a witness said Brown sent Drake a
nasty note about Rihanna. But that has been disputed by Brown’s
management Phase Too, which tweeted: “There was no bottle sent to @drake
and there was no note! Stop the lies, TMZ/MTO!!!! There were no punches
thrown, just glass.”
As previously reported, Brown spoke with police Thursday. Drake, who
was scheduled to perform at Saratoga Springs Performing Arts Center
Thursday night in upstate New York, said he was unable to and would do
so at a more convenient time with his attorney.
Brown famously had a violent relationship with Rihanna and is still
on supervised probation for attacking her on the eve of the 2009 Grammy
awards, leaving her with a split lip, a black eye and other injuries.
They are on good terms now; both performed at this year’s Grammy
awards and also recently debuted two songs featuring each other. Brown
sings and raps on the remix of Rihanna’s “Birthday Cake,” and she
appears on a new version of his song “Turn up the Music.”
Rihanna dated Drake very briefly after Brown, and has said they
didn’t last long in part because she was “too fragile” from the split.
She also recently collaborated with Drake on his hit “Take Care” and appeared in his video.
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