Man arrested after South Beech fight

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Gabriel Lima (Manchester Police courtesy photo)

MANCHESTER, N.H. – At approximately 4 p.m. on July 9, police responded to 163 Beech St. for a fight involving multiple people and possible weapons.

Upon arrival, officers discovered a 53-year-old man with lacerations on his face and head along with a swollen eye and scratches to his arms and knees. He told the officers that he was looking for a 14-year-old daughter who had not come home.

Eventually, the man found his daughter on South Beech Street and was trying to get her into his car when a man he did not know started yelling at him.

That man was later identified as Gabriel Lima, 30, of Manchester.

Lima and the man started arguing and Lima punched the man several times. Witnesses indicated that the man grabbed a pry bar from his car and attempted to strike Lima with it, but Lima grabbed the bar from the man’s hands and hit the man with it instead.

Lima was charged with alleged second-degree assault. He is scheduled to appear in Hillsborough Superior Court – North on July 25, 2019.

Anyone accused of a crime is innocent unless proven guilty by a court of law.

Anyone with additional information to add to this report is welcome to e-mail the editor at carolrobidoux@manchesterinklink.com.

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Born and raised in the Granite State, Andrew Sylvia has written approximately 10,000 pieces over his career for outlets across Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont. On top of that, he's a licensed notary and licensed to sell property, casualty and life insurance, he's been a USSF trained youth soccer and futsal referee for the past six years and he can name over 60 national flags in under 60 seconds according to that flag game app he has on his phone, which makes sense because he also has a bachelor's degree in geography (like Michael Jordan). He can also type over 100 words a minute on a good day.