{"id":338375,"date":"2026-09-04T21:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T21:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/338375\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T21:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T21:14:11","slug":"savage-brawl-between-two-brooklynites-that-left-one-with-eye-gouged-out-was-latest-in-long-feud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/338375\/","title":{"rendered":"Savage brawl between two Brooklynites that left one with eye gouged out was latest in long feud"},"content":{"rendered":"

A savage brawl on the streets of Brooklyn in which one man was stabbed and another lost an eye <\/a>was only the latest episode in a long-standing feud between the two neighbors, police and law enforcement sources said.<\/p>\n

Jowan Latham, 46, and Eric Payne are both facing assault charges for Thursday\u2019s bloody clash over a parking spot at Shepherd and New Lots Aves. in East New York, cops said.\u00a0Payne, 38, was also hit with a weapons possession charge.<\/p>\n

But the two had just clashed about a month earlier over the younger man\u2019s motorcycle, officials said.<\/p>\n

Cops arrested Latham back on Aug. 16 and charged him with criminal mischief after he wrecked Payne\u2019s motorcycle a week earlier on Atkins Ave. near Pitkin Ave.<\/a> in East New York about 3:00 p.m., according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n

Payne stayed inside a nearby apartment as Latham yelled, \u201cCome outside, I\u2019m going to f\u2014 you up!\u201d according to court documents. When Latham finally walked off, Payne stepped outside to find his motorcycle totaled.<\/p>\n

A Brooklyn criminal court judge released Latham without bail at his Aug. 17 arraignment, court records show.<\/p>\n

\"AA man (inset) had his left eyeball (main) gouged out on New Lots Ave. in Brooklyn on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2026. (Photos courtesy of George Ylitao)<\/p>\n

The pair\u2019s feud escalated on Thursday morning in a nasty brawl over a parking spot that ended with Latham digging Payne\u2019s eyeball out of its socket, cops said.<\/p>\n

The two neighbors were arguing at Shepherd and New Lots Aves.<\/a> at about 11:00 a.m., Payne stabbed Latham in the stomach. A woman accompanying Payne then doused the older man with pepper spray, cops said.<\/p>\n

Payne and the woman hopped into a black Nissan Altima and sped off, but Latham chased after the pair in a beige Lexus \u2014 bleeding on his seat \u2014 for about three blocks to Elton St, where the chase ended as Latham rammed Payne\u2019s sedan.<\/p>\n

\"AccordingA car crash led to a savage brawl on the streets of Brooklyn, where a stabbing victim gouged out his rival’s eye before collapsing in a pool of his own blood Thursday, police and witnesses said. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

\u201cI heard the sound of the wheels and the bang, the crash. The car went up on the sidewalk and hit a tree,\u201d a 22-year-old witness told the Daily News. \u201cThe two guys get out and start screaming at one another.\u201d<\/p>\n

A moment later, the witness saw the two men sprinting down the street.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of them was stabbed, and he was running down the street bleeding, holding his side,\u201d the witness said. \u201cHe was chasing the other guy. He was giving the sprint his all, chasing the other guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nearby resident, George Ylitalo, 35, told The News he\u2019d gone outside to smoke a cigarette when he heard screeching tires in the distance before the two men came running up the street\u2014 one of them gushing blood.<\/p>\n

\"AccordingA car crash led to a savage brawl on the streets of Brooklyn, where a stabbing victim gouged out his rival’s eye before collapsing in a pool of his own blood Thursday, police and witnesses said. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

During the foot chase, Payne ducked behind a parked car, only for Latham to leap atop the vehicle, Ylitalo said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis guy was determined to get the guy who stabbed him. I have to give it to him. The amount of blood that it looked like he had lost, it was just insane,\u201d Ylitalo continued.<\/p>\n

Payne tried to ward off Latham with a traffic cone, but he managed to evade the blow before tackling Payne below.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe guy dodged it and got on top of him. He really was wailing on him,\u201d said Ylitalo.<\/p>\n

\"AccordingA car crash led to a savage brawl on the streets of Brooklyn, where a stabbing victim gouged out his rival’s eye before collapsing in a pool of his own blood Thursday, police and witnesses said. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

It was amid the beating that followed that Ylitalo heard a blood-curdling scream, which he realized only later was the wailing of a man whose eye had just been ripped from its socket.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t like a regular type of, \u2018Ow ow, my face.\u2019 I don\u2019t really know how to explain it. It\u2019s very rare you hear a man scream like that,\u201d the witness said.<\/p>\n

After gouging Payne\u2019s eye, Latham got up and took a few steps before collapsing in the street.<\/p>\n

\"AccordingA car crash led to a savage brawl on the streets of Brooklyn, where a stabbing victim gouged out his rival’s eye before collapsing in a pool of his own blood Thursday, police and witnesses said. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Ylitalo applied pressure to the stab victim\u2019s wound as his friend called 911 and onlookers recorded the carnage on their phones.<\/p>\n

It was only after medics arrived that a police officer pointed out Payne\u2019s eyeball, Ylitalo said.<\/p>\n

\"AccordingA car crash led to a savage brawl on the streets of Brooklyn, where a stabbing victim gouged out his rival’s eye before collapsing in a pool of his own blood Thursday, police and witnesses said. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was literally just lying on the sidewalk,\u201d Ylitalo said. \u201cIt got to the point where the cop had to cover it with a hat, because people were going crazy trying to get photos of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Medics took both men to Brookdale University Hospital, where they were in stable condition. Payne remained in the hospital Friday afternoon, cops said.<\/p>\n

Their arraignments in Brooklyn Criminal Court were pending Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A savage brawl on the streets of Brooklyn in which one man was stabbed and another lost an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[98,9,11,10,63,103],"class_list":["post-338375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-brooklyn","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-nyc","tag-nypd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}