New Jersey cops got a little help from their Facebook friends in the bust of a machete-wielding madman who, along with two others, viciously attacked two people at a chicken shack. Hit the jump to read the rest of the story.
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Tyree Seegers, 22, turned himself in on Wednesday, just five days after the Paterson police department’s Cease Fire Unit posted surveillance video of the ruthless attacks on its Facebook page, CBS New York reported.
Police say he couldn’t hide after the footage went viral.
“We turned to Facebook for help,†Paterson Police Capt. Heriberto Rodriguez told CBS. “Seegers turned himself in because he felt all this pressure from everywhere.”
In the Sept. 10 video, Seegers, along with suspects Omar Villota, 22, and Johel Gomez, 20, are seen pistol-whipping a man in the head as he tries to leave a U.S. Chicken Restaurant, police said.
The scuffle spills out into the street, but mintues later, the cameras caught a second, more savage attack, according to CBS.
As Gomez and Villota punch the second man in the head, Seegers hacks wildly at him with a large machete, police said.
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The victim then crumples to the floor, and Gomez kicks him in the head before the crew flees, police said.
Gomez and Villota were nabbed that night and charged with aggravated assault, weapons possessions and conspiracy, according to local reports.
Seegers turned himself in on Wednesday and was charged with aggravated assault. Rodriguez said the second victim, who was not identified, survived and his injuries weren’t life threatening.
Miraculously, Seegers only landed one clean blow with the blade – bloodying one of his own pals.
“The one time he swung [the machete\] straight and effectively, he hit his own counterpart, his own friend,” Rodriguez told the station.
