Police looking into brawl during Memorial Day cookout in Juniata

Philadelphia police are investigating an altercation at a Memorial Day cookout in Juniata Park that left a 36-year-old man with serious injuries.

The incident took place about 5:40 p.m. on the 4300 block of Lawndale Street. The man told police a group of girls arrived at his mother's house there "to start an altercation with his daughters."

Police said the group began to yell and scream at the man and others at the house and forced their way up the front steps. Another man ran up to the house's porch and hit the victim's brother-in-law, police said. The victim attempted to break up the fight, but was hit in the right eye, fell to the ground, and was punched, kicked, and stomped until he lost consciousness, police said he told them.

A 12-year-old girl, a 14-year-old girl, and a 64-year-old woman were also assaulted while attempting to break up the fight, police said.

The 36-year-old man was taken to Aria Health, Frankford Campus in a private car for treatment, police said. He told police that 30 people had been involved in the incident.

On Facebook, the man's wife identified the children injured as her daughters, and said the family was from Bucks County and had been in Philadelphia for the cookout. In a post shared more than 100 times on the social-media site, she called the incident "a hate crime towards my white children."

A police spokeswoman said police reports on the incident did not indicate the fight was racially motivated.

Officials had not made any arrests as of Tuesday, but had not finished their investigation.