Rival taggers get rough

I don't know what to make of this story. There's a lot of questions that Montebello PD declined to answer.

The jist is that two groups of taggers got into two fights over the course of the afternoon.

Here's the story we posted early this a.m.:

MONTEBELLO - Rival tagging crews "beat each other up" Sunday afternoon, resulting in two people being sent to the hospital, said Montebello Police Lt. Govan Yee.

The first incident occurred around 4:30 p.m. at the 100 block of 18th Street. A man was attacked and beaten with an object by several members of a rival tagging crew.

Immediately after, the victim retaliated by attacking a rival tagging member, who was at his home on Wilcox Avenue.

Yee said it does not appear that either victim will press charges.

"Both of them were not very cooperative as to giving information," Yee said. "It's typical that gangs and tagging crews handle their own problems. Unfortunately, it results in more violence down the road."

Yee declined to give the names of the gangs, the names of the victims, or the victims ages