Alabama boat fighters Zachery Shipman and his girlfriend Mary Todd have been photographed for the first time after being released from prison.
The two had turned themselves in to police in Montgomery, Alabama, after shocking footage seen online by millions of people showed two groups of people fighting on a dock.
The brawl is believed to have started when the group of white boaters became enraged after being asked to move their boat on the wharf to make way for a riverboat.
Shipman is one of four men charged with assault, and his girlfriend Mary Todd was charged with assaulting a co-captain of a black riverboat crew.
The two have since been released and can be seen in exclusive DailyMail.com photos for the first time since leaving a gas station around 9 a.m. Saturday morning.
When approached with questions, Shipman said, “I can’t talk at all” — while Todd quickly got into the car without saying a word.
In these exclusive photos, the couple can be seen for the first time after they turned themselves in to the police
The two had turned themselves in to police in Montgomery, Alabama, after shocking footage seen online by millions of people showed two groups of people fighting on a dock.
Shipman, left, and Todd, right, have both since been charged with assault after the brawl
Shipman is seen sitting and handcuffed on the dock after the brawl along with other attackers while shirtless and visibly sunburnt
Todd and Shipman are charged with assault, along with 48-year-old Richard Roberts – who is accused of beating 16-year-old Daniel Warren by the boy’s mother – in the incident, with police saying investigations are ongoing is.
The boy’s mother, Crystal Warren, says she heard one of the attackers say “f**k that n*****” before getting into a brawl with the black sailor at the center of the shocking incident.
She told police she watched the whole interaction and has revealed she heard one of the white aggressors threaten to go get a gun, according to legal documents obtained by TMZ.
Police have also charged Allen Todd, 23, and announced today that they have filed charges against Reggie Ray, 42.
Officials had announced they were looking to talk to Gray, the black man who was seen beating people with a folding chair.
Ray was charged with one felony charge of disorderly conduct in the Aug. 5 incident, according to CNN.
The video features men gouging out their eyes and hurl punches at each other’s heads, and several people using folding chairs as weapons – including a man dropping a woman to the floor after hitting her with the chair.
Multiple angles of the wild brawl have emerged after it was widely circulated on social media last month.
It seemed to start when the riverboat deckhand, Damien Pickett, 31, got into a fight with a member of the white boat party after asking them to move.
Alongside the couple, police charged Richard Roberts, left, and Allen Todd, right, with assault
Shipman is reportedly the owner of Vasser’s Convenience Store, a small shop next to a gas station in Marathon on a road leading out of historic Selma, about 50 miles from Montgomery, the Alabama state capital.
Pickett threw his hat in the air in anticipation of a brawl, before the scene quickly escalated as the pair exchanged blows.
Just then, another white man in red shorts tackles Pickett to the ground, before several others join the fray.
As some tried to flee and others jumped into the skirmish, a teenager dove into the water to swim across the river and join the fight.
Separate footage filmed from the riverboat shows Gray brutally smashing a chair over a man’s head.
Mary Todd, believed to be the woman seen in the viral video kicking Damien Pickett after being knocked down in the fight
Pickett had told police that Mary Todd punched him in the throat while holding a beer and “wouldn’t let him pass,” police said. ALREADY. com.
It is not clear if Allen Todd and Mary Todd are related.
The shocking brawl was captured on video from several angles and posted on social media
Police Chief Darryl Albert said on Tuesday that 13 people were detained at the scene
The fight started after Damien Pickett, the black sailor, moved boats parked in the spot on the dock reserved specifically for the river cruise
In an interview with The everyday beastRiver cruise captain Jim Kittrell said the whites must have attacked Pickett because of his race.
“The white men who attacked my deckhand — and he was a senior deckhand first mate — I can’t think of any other reason they attacked him other than it was racially motivated,” Kittrell said.
“All he did was raise their boat a few feet. It’s no use having six people try to kick the snot out of your body just because you lifted their boat a few feet,” he said.
“In my opinion, the attack on Damien was racially motivated,” Kittrell explained, before adding that the rest of the fight “wasn’t black and white.”
The captain added that his crew would have stood up for Pickett, who is said to be over 40 and a diabetic with hypertension, against anyone.
Kittrell – and the police – say it all started when a private boat owner and his family took over the designated dock for the Harriott, a tourist craft that takes passengers up and down the Alabama River.
Jim Kittrell, the captain of the Harriott II, has claimed that the attack on Montgomery’s Riverfront Park was racially motivated
Zachery Chase Shipman’s mom, Melissa Calvert, 50, told DailyMail.com, “This wasn’t a racial thing, that’s common knowledge. But now some try to say it was’
Despite claims it was a racially motivated incident, DailyMail.com spoke to Melissa Calvert, Zachery Shipman’s mother, earlier this week
She said, “Everyone is just trying to stir things up. That’s all that happens. This was not a racial thing, that is common knowledge. But now some are trying to say it was.’
Montgomery Mayor Steven Read said the fight was “triggered by reckless individuals who failed to use common sense and caused an event that was avoidable.”