Two Hurt In Fight Outside Delphic

Two Harvard students were physically assaulted by two unidentified suspects in front of the Delphic final club on Linden Street early Sunday morning.

At 2:34 a.m., the Cambridge Police Department (CPD) responded to the scene on a report of assault and battery, according to CPD Sergeant James DeFrancesco.

DeFrancesco said the incident started when three individuals—one male and two females—were driving down Linden Street in a car and the victims were walking down the street with friends.

“They exchanged a few words and had a argument,” DeFrancesco said. “It escalated, they got out of a car, a few punches were thrown and they fled.”

The male suspect punched one victim in face, breaking his tooth, DeFrancesco said, and one of the females from the car punched another victim.

Katy A. Long ’05, who identified herself to The Crimson as the victim assaulted by the female suspect, said the fight began when she and her friends Seth R. Pearson ’05, Emily F. Stevens ’05 and Kimberly A. Gould ’05 were leaving the Delphic.

“Seth walked a little bit in front of me and Emily, and Kim was behind us,” Long said. “Emily and I were walking in the street because our stiletto heels were getting stuck in the cobblestones. We were talking and laughing.”

She said that a white four-door sedan came up behind them, so she and Stevens ran onto the sidewalk.

Then the individuals in the car said, “Get out of the way, you fucking whores,” according to Long, who added that the individuals also called her and Stevens “whores and sluts and bitches.”

Pearson said that he and his friends did not start the fight.

“I certainly think it was provoked by [the assailants], both with the taunting and the physical aspect of it,” he said.

Long said that Pearson responded to the people in the car by saying “suck a dick” to them, and then a black male jumped out of the car and “started punching Seth in the face.”

Long said she was surprised Pearson was a victim in this incident, whom she described as about 6’2 tall and 210 lbs.

“And [the assailant] turns to me and Emily,” Long said. “And Seth says, ‘Don’t get the ladies involved.’”

Long said the individual then returned his attention to Pearson, breaking his tooth with more punches. At that time, she said, two black females exited the car and one of them approached her.

“She said, ‘I’ll get the ladies involved, you got a problem, bitch’ and starts punching me in the head,” Long said. “I put my hands in front of my face. She had me against the brick wall of the Delphic. I’m crying uncontrollably. She’s pummeling me.”

When the Harvard University Police Department arrived, DeFrancesco said, the suspects had fled in the car and the police were left with little evidence to determine their whereabouts.

“When they got there everyone was gone,” DeFrancesco said. “There was no [license] plate number, nothing.”

No one has been arrested and there are no suspects at this time, DeFrancesco said yesterday.

Long said the suspects appeared to be 26 years old.

Long said her injuries included bumps and bruises all along the back of her head. Pearson said, in addition to suffering from bruises, he had to have an emergency root canal Sunday.

—Staff writer Hana R. Alberts can be reached at alberts@fas.harvard.edu.