Lawsuit following fight outside Conway’s Malys Entertainment in January

Conway, Arkansas – A lawsuit seeking damages has been filed in Faulkner County Circuit Court following a brawl in January.

According to the lawsuit, a group of white adults accosted the four Black teenagers while yelling racial epithets outside a Conway entertainment facility. A police inquiry resulted from the incident that was caught on camera in the Malys Entertainment parking lot.

Five Cleburne County residents were identified as alleged participants in the altercation by the Conway Police Department’s following investigation: Kellie Kennedy, Cody Sutherland, Michael Kennedy, Stephanie Hartwick, and Chuckie Hartwick.

Along with Malys Entertainment and “John and Jane Does 1—10,” the same five are named as defendants in the case for allegedly abusing and battering the four teenagers.

A jury trial for undisclosed damages is requested in the lawsuit. It alleges that Malys was careless for serving beer to persons who were visibly intoxicated and for not have enough security to stop the altercation. The five defendants “willfully and wantonly engaged in extreme and outrageous conduct,” according to the statement.

William Proctor and Jacobi Malone of the Little Rock-based Proctor and Malone legal firm filed the lawsuit. The firm would host a news conference regarding the litigation at noon on November 11 at Christ Temple Conway Church on Willow Street in Conway, according to a letter announcing the filing.