J.D. Gallop

FLORIDA TODAY

Two Palm Bay women face charges after police said they attacked a shopper trying to alert them that she was walking behind their car, then grabbed the woman's groceries and tossed them to the ground.

Naysha Barre-Parrilla, 24, and Deysha Williams, 36, were both charged with battery and criminal mischief after Palm Bay police were called to the Publix grocery store parking lot at 3450 Bayside Lakes to investigate reports of a disturbance, records show.

Witnesses told police that Barre-Parrilla was backing out in her car about 6:53 p.m. Monday when she nearly struck a woman identified by officers as the victim. Police said the woman first yelled to alert Barre-Parrilla that she was behind the vehicle but that Barre-Parrilla and Williams, who was a passenger, got out of the car and followed her.

A confrontation ensued and police said Barre-Parrilla and Williams beat the woman repeatedly in the head before turning to her grocery cart and throwing out a package of fried chicken and a gallon of milk. Officers said the woman was left with a lump on her forehead, reports said.

Barre-Parrilla and Williams were both arrested and booked into the Brevard County Jail Complex in Sharpes. Both were ordered held on $1,000 bonds, records show.

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