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OGDEN — An Ogden couple was pleading for help Monday to identify five people tied to a brutal assault early Sunday morning outside an Ogden bar that left them and another woman injured.

The attack, which happened before 1 a.m. outside Historic Place at 162 25th St., was caught by surveillance cameras at that business and at the neighboring Blood & Ink Tattoo Studio.

Keysha Espinosa, a tattoo artist who also works at the bar, said it all began with a group of two men and three women who were acting “confrontational.”

A co-worker told the group to leave, she said.

“They proceeded out the door, but they proceeded out the door with a cup of alcohol, which you can’t do,” Espinosa said, explaining that was against the rules.

The co-worker, she said, followed the group outside to retrieve the glass.

“When she went out there, it just became, you know, something it didn’t need to be,” Espinosa said.

Surveillance video obtained by KSL from both businesses shows what happened when Espinosa and her fiancé, Cody Searle, followed out to help the co-worker — a flurry of shoves, punches and kicks from members of the group who were told to leave.

“I was like, ‘look, I’m just trying to help, you know, diffuse the situation,’” said Searle.

Shortly after that, Searle said one of the men in the group told him he’d “kill” him.

“The guy just had a hold of me and then they dragged me over towards the road and it ended up being the two guys sitting there hitting on me,” Searle recalled. “They tripped me, threw me to the ground and just started stomping on my head, and that’s the last I remember.”

Searle, who is rendered motionless on the video, said he was knocked unconscious. He said he suffered a broken cheekbone and nose and required some staples to close up a cut on the back of his head.

“Just everything — from my shoulders up — it just hurts,” Searle said.

Espinosa said her eye, nose and wrist were fractured during the ordeal.

Surveillance video showed Espinosa’s co-worker being pushed to the ground and repeatedly punched and kicked.

“I feel like it was bad enough there should be more interest in it,” Espinosa said.

Ogden Police Lt. Tim Scott said major crimes detectives were investigating the case as an aggravated assault.

He encouraged anybody who had witnessed the encounter and not yet contacted police to call investigators, along with anyone who may recognize and know the whereabouts of the two men and three women caught on surveillance video.

Scott said witnesses and those with information in the case should call 801-629-8228.

“I just want them to be held accountable,” Espinosa said. “I want to see them prosecuted for what they’ve done.”

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