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Woman dies after New Year’s bar brawl
Posted: 01.01.2013 at 9:26 AM
Elizabeth Reed

Elizabeth is the Internet Managing Editor for WNWO.

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1 dead after New Year's bar fight in West Toledo.  / WNWO newsfile
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TOLEDO -- A 23-year-old woman died early Tuesday after she was stabbed in the throat during a bar fight in West Toledo.

According to police, officers were dispatched to the scene of a large fight at South Beach Bar on Alexis Road just before 2 a.m. Police were able to break up the fight, but heard someone yell that a peson had been stabbed in the throat in the rear of the bar parking lot.

The victim, Christina Henderson, was found with a severe wound to her throat, according to the police report. She was transported to a local hospital and died around 2:39 a.m.

Dispatchers said Tuesday morning that at least two people had been taken to the hospital for injuries related to the fight. The conditions of any other victims have not been released.

Anyone with information about the incident should contact the Toledo Police Department at (419)-245-3142 or Crime Stopper at (419)-255-1111.

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