One of three people in custody in connection with the videotaped assault of a man on board a DART train said Monday that he doesn't feel "any kind of sorry about it" because he was only protecting his family.

"It's my brother, my family. I'm here to protect them and that's what I'm going to do and I feel like I did what I was supposed to do as a brother," said Remon Hendrix, 23.

Hendrix and his 21-year-old brother, Jakobi, were both arrested last week on assault charges after the beating involving the two and several others, was caught on DART surveillance footage and cellphone video. The video -- including images showing some of the suspects hitting the victim with a skateboard -- had been viewed nearly 200,000 times by Monday afternoon.

A third suspect, a female juvenile whose red hair was distinctive in the video, was arrested Monday in connection with the July 30 attack on Kennan Jones, 44. The girl is not being named because The Dallas Morning News does not typically identify juvenile suspects. She is being held at the Henry Wade Juvenile Detention Center.

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No innocent bystander

Remon Hendrix spoke to reporters Monday from the Dallas County jail where he is being held on $5,000 bond. Jakobi Hendrix also remains in the Dallas County jail on $25,000 bond.

According to Remon Hendrix, Jones, who was on his way home from school, was as anything but an innocent bystander.

Hendrix said that he and his brother, Jakobi, were not on the train with Jones when the incident began. But a third Hendrix brother, 17-year-old Cameron, was.

Remon Hendrix (Ashley Landis / Staff Photographer)

Remon Hendrix said that Cameron -- who has not been arrested -- told him that the altercation started when Jones asked some friends of Cameron's to stop smoking marijuana. When they refused, Jones then held the train door open and told them to get off, Cameron later told his bother.

At some point, Remon Hendrix said his brother told him that Jones called the juvenile suspect a whore or a prostitute and that she responded by spitting in Jones' face.

At that point, Remon said, Jones then pointed his finger in his brother's face and taunted him and his friends.

"Cameron told me that the guy pointed in his face and touched his nose like, ‘ain't nothing y'all gonna do about it,’ and Cameron said he slapped his hand down," Remon said. "And I guess that's when everything started. I don't know how much of it is true, but that's the side of the story I got.”

Remon said that he and Jakobi got involved in the scuffle as they rode to work on another DART train. They said that while stopped at the Deep Ellum station, they looked out on the platform and saw their younger brother involved in a fight.

“We see my little brother dragging him off the train and then he was right in front of us and we ran up, that's when we proceeded to help in the altercation," Remon said. "After that I guess I got in my two licks and that's when everybody proceeded to go get on the train."

He said he thought the incident was over and that he and the rest of those involved were headed to get back on the train when Jones came up from behind and hit him on his side.

"Now I'm ready and ticked off because dude, we tried to let you go and you came back for me," Remon said. "Then after that I straddled him and proceeded to punch him in his rib cage. After that, that's when I look up and see them hitting him with skateboards and stuff like that and that's when I knew things really kind of turned for the worse."

Remon Hendrix, 23, touches his nose, recreating a moment in a recent altercation, as he speaks to a reporter on Monday. (Ashley Landis / Staff Photographer)

'No community purpose'

Jones' lawyer, Emmanuel Obi, said Monday that he would not respond to inquiries about Hendrix's account of the events because "the questions serve no community purpose."

In a separate interview Saturday, Jones said that he has not spoken to DART since the incident, but said the altercation is an opportunity to come together to "help the people" of Dallas.

"This problem has been existing and brought to the forefront before I got here," Jones said. "We need to correct the problem that is evident in our city."

Despite the assault, Jones said that DART remains his primary method of transportation, other than walking. He said he still has some bruises from the attack, which he said has made him paranoid and placed him in a "warrior mode mind frame because those people are still out there."

"That is part of the responsibility of DART, to supply everyone on their transit, their public transit system a certain level of protection," he said. "Not just off the train when they hit the ground, but actually on the train."

In response to the attack and other concerns about crime on trains and buses, DART officials said the agency's police officers have increased patrols at the Deep Ellum Station and the station at nearby Baylor University Medical Center.

"In addition to DART PD actively patrolling the other stations, we are engaging our 13 municipal partners to provide additional patrol coverage to all 64 stations," DART spokesman Mark Ball said.

For his part, Remon Hendrix said that he hopes that the full story of what happened that day will eventually come out and that people will understand that he and his brothers didn't just decide to randomly attack Jones.

"The story is going to come and find out that's my baby brother," Remon said. "I don't feel like any kind of sorry about it because I feel like if any other time, I would've did the same thing in a different situation.”