Viral video shows man stomped during chaotic gas station brawl as teen is arrested

An Arkansas teen is down bars and different antheral is successful the infirmary with superior injuries aft video of a brutal combat astatine a section state presumption went viral past weekend. 

Officers with the Hot Springs Police Department responded to a Circle K state presumption connected Malvern Avenue successful Hot Springs – located astir 55 miles from Little Rock – around 11:30 p.m. connected Saturday, Jan. 17, according to FOX 16. 

After arriving connected scene, authorities located 20-year-old Noah Epperson unconscious and suffering from aggregate injuries, the outlet reported. 

According to a constabulary study obtained by FOX 16, a combat broke retired betwixt 2 groups astatine a enactment earlier that night. Friends of Epperson reportedly told constabulary that their radical subsequently near the enactment and arrived astatine a adjacent Circle K state station, erstwhile the 2nd radical allegedly followed.

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A viral combat reportedly broke retired astatine a Circle K state presumption successful Hot Springs, Arkansas, past week, successful which 20-year-old Noah Epperson was knocked unconscious aft suffering aggregate superior injuries. (Google Maps)

A 2nd combat reportedly broke out, with viral video showing Epperson being punched successful the look by aggregate alleged assailants and having his caput stomped on. 

Immediately pursuing the brawl, bystanders began to leave, and section constabulary were called to the country by a acrophobic national who believed an idiosyncratic had either been wounded oregon killed. 

Epperson was transported to a hospital, wherever helium was admitted into intensive attraction with a encephalon bleed, skull fracture and jaw fracture, according to a GoFundMe created to screen his aesculapian bills.

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Cooper Camferdam, 18, is charged with felony first-degree artillery stemming from a viral brawl successful which 20-year-old Noah Epperson was earnestly injured astatine a Circle K state presumption successful Hot Springs, Arkansas, connected Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. (Garland County Detention Center)

Two days aft the alleged attack, 18-year-old Cooper Camferdam turned himself successful to constabulary successful transportation with the alleged attack, FOX 16 reported. 

Police reportedly said Camferdam is the idiosyncratic seen successful the now-viral video stomping connected Epperson’s head, which yet near him unconscious. 

"He has suffered a fracture to the skull, fracture to the jaw, and helium has proceeding nonaccomplishment connected his near ear," Katie Epperson, Epperson’s mother, told KARK. "The beforehand of his face, determination isn’t anything. But some sides, big, purple ears and bruises."

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According to police, the combat reportedly broke retired aft 2 groups became progressive successful an altercation astatine a enactment earlier successful the evening, with 1 radical pursuing the different to a Circle K state presumption successful Hot Springs, Arkansas, connected Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. (Google Maps)

"We’ll benignant of spell from determination to spot if determination volition beryllium immoderate semipermanent effects," Katie Epperson said. "We conscionable truly don’t cognize close now."

Camferdam is charged with felony first-degree artillery and is being held successful the Garland County Detention Center connected $500,000 bond, according to apprehension records obtained by Fox News Digital. 

Police reportedly said they person utilized the video to place further persons of interest, and they expect to marque much arrests. 

The Hot Springs Police Department did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.

Epperson’s parent reportedly added that her lad does not person wellness insurance, and is asking for the public’s assistance successful covering his aesculapian bills portion hoping for her son’s speedy recovery.

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"We’re looking into options to get these aesculapian bills covered," Katie Epperson said, according to KARK. "But I truly consciousness powerfully that the fishy should wage the aesculapian bills."

"I don’t privation anyone other to get hurt," she continued. "Let the instrumentality enforcement bash their job, and justness volition beryllium served."