Assault Arrests After Family Feud

Four people are arrested after a family fight over money results in domestic assault. The victims say one man was beaten with a baseball bat while his pregnant fiance was choked and they say the Bradley County sheriff's office could have stopped it all.

Steve Levi says family members arrived and assaulted him and his future brother in law early Tuesday morning with a baseball bat. He says the fight caused bruises on his back, and sent him to hospital. Levi says, "While they kicked me in the head and the face and tried to kill me."

Then, he says hours later, they came back to his address in Bradley County and a second brawl broke out, this time he says they attecked his pregnant sister, Vera Perry. Perry says, "They choked me so bad I couldn't breath and made me pass out."

The victims say their blood would never have been spilled during the second assault if the Sheriff's Office had acted differently, but we talked to the Sheriff's Office who says his officers did nothing wrong.

Sheriff Tim Gobble says, "I feel like at this point our deputies have followed proper policies and procedures in that regard and are cognizant in the job they need to do." Gobble also says his officers responded to the address within minutes, but neither parties were there and and they had no way to find those who reported the incident.

But Levi says it took the officers an hour and a half to respond the first time, and DIDN'T get the suspect off the streets soon enough. He says, "My two year old son here, he could have got hurt he could have got killed, and I think that Bradley County could have prevented this."

So we pulled the 911 tapes to get some answers, and found out the first fight lasted much longer and was still going on when officers responded.

Then, later that morning, you can hear the call to report the second fight, when victims say officers responded within three minutes and arrested four people, Michael Patterson, Jennifer Patterson, Michael Rogers, and Casey McCall, all for domestic assault. McCall was also charged with aggravated assault.

The Sheriff's Office says there was a supervisor inquiry into the incident that concluded officers did nothing wrong. Now Levi does have a lengthy criminal record including theft and possession of marijuana. We also talked with one of those charged who says the story goes much deeper and he was only acting in self defense.