By Jim Clark

Somerville Police officers were dispatched to a Temple St. location last Friday afternoon on reports of an assault.

Upon arrival, responding officers spotted several parties engaged in actively fighting.

One of the involved parties, Chris Hicks, of Saugus, reportedly gave officers a false name, date of birth and Social Security number during booking and prior to arrest.

This was discovered when his fingerprints came back and also from an officer’s previous experiences in booking Hicks.

Several individuals involved in the fight were bleeding heavily from cuts and in one case what EMT’s believed to be a broken nose. Another person was bleeding from a cut inside his mouth.

One person explained to police that both she and another individual were at their home and could hear Hicks outside the window screaming. She saw Hicks and asked him to walk away from the window.

In response Hicks reportedly threw a beer at the window. One of the residents went downstairs and asked that he leave and at this point Hicks allegedly struck her with an open hand to her face and spat on her.

At this point, two other individuals came to her defense, at which time Hicks reportedly assaulted them.

During the assault, Hicks reportedly struck both parties in the face with a closed fist and kicked them with a shod foot.

According to reports, Hicks also threw a half full can of beer at one of the men, which struck him on the nose.

After Hicks was handcuffed by the officers, he was asked about what had occurred but he was reportedly non-cooperative.

Hicks was subsequently transported to police headquarters where he was booked on charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, assault and battery on a person over 60 or disabled, assault and battery, and furnishing a false ID, and on warrant charges of assault and battery on a corrections officer, indecent exposure, assault. and assault and battery.