VIDEO: Teen sisters attacked by mob

Thursday, April 9, 2015
VIDEO: Sisters attacked in Trenton
Police say they have identified two of the suspects in an attack on teenage sisters in a Trenton park.

TRENTON -- Police say they have identified two of the suspects in an attack on teenage sisters in a Trenton park.

17-year-old Lajahia Cooke and her 16-year-old sister, Destiny, are recovering from a beating they took Monday evening at Trenton's Greg Grant Park on East State Street.

Police say that's where a mob of people, including several adults, went after the teenagers in a violent attack.

"They were pulling my hair. When I fell to the ground, I felt people stomping on me, punching me in the head. I had a knot on my head," Destiny said.

"They were, like, around me and my sister. If I got up, I would have got hit again," Lajahia said.

Destiny has a bald spot on her head where her hair was pulled out.

Lajahia needed 12 stitches to close a gash on her ear.

"Any animal that would put their hands on a kid like that, that is wrong," the girls' mother, Laronda Cooke, told Action News.

Laronda is enraged, angry that no one tried to stop the beatings and that several people recorded the fight on their cell phones, posting the video on social media and egging the fight on.

"It's wrong, and this has been going on," said said. "They keep video recording and video recording - kids out here getting beat like this by adults."

Trenton police confirm the Cookes are working with them to identify the juveniles and adults seen in the video punching, kicking and beating the girls.

The Cookes say they know some of the attackers, and Loronda wants them prosecuted.

"Every person who took a swing," she said. "If they can get the guys that were trying to touch my daughter, I consider that sexual assault."

"We could have died out there, somebody stomping on my head," said Destiny. "Anything could have happened."

No arrests have been made.