Arrest Made In Metro Station Assault

BALTIMORE -- Police said Thursday morning that an arrest has been made in a July incident in which two teens were attacked at a Metro station in northwest Baltimore. The arrest occurred hours after the teens' mothers spoke to 11 News.

Watch: 11 News Reporter Reba Hollingsworth Note: Reba's story aired Wednesday at 11 p.m.

The suspect, a teenager, was arrested at his school Thursday, authorities said. Police haven't released his name and didn't say what school he was attending.

During the attack, a 17-year-old victim was punched so hard that his teeth shifted and he had to get wires put into his mouth.

The teen and his friend said that a group attacked them at a Rogers Avenue Metro station on July 5 after watching the Fourth of July holiday fireworks.

The teen said he was talking to a cab company on his cell phone and was struck from behind.

"From that one hit I broke my jaw in two places. I just knelt down and started to spit up blood. I saw a group of them rise up," Dione Smith said. "I got stomped in the face. I remember things that were said, 'Don't kill him, we got what we want.'"

Their mothers said that on July 23, their sons picked one of the suspects out of a line-up and a Metro camera identified him. The women said Wednesday night that the MTA police hadn't arrested the attacker.

The mothers said that they were told that the suspect would be arrested on the first day of school.

"You had two ways to pick him up in July, either at home or his probation officer, and you choose to wait and hope that he would go to school. My question to them on Aug. 22 -- what makes you think he would go to school?" Marcia Cephus said Wednesday.

MTA police said they had been trying to track down the suspect, but because he's a juvenile the process was longer.

"We certainly understand how the parent feels. I don't feel like things are moving fast enough, but we hope if anybody else witnessed this assault that happened, they step forward," MTA communications director Jawauna Greene said.