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Bartender Bitten Trying To Break Up Fight

Posted: 4:56 pm EDT June 12, 2009Updated: 5:56 pm EDT June 12, 2009

An Atlanta bartender has packed her bags and left town after she was assaulted while trying to break up a fight.

It happened at O'Terrill's Irish Pub in the 500 block of Piedmont Avenue in Midtown.

Keri Ramirez said she noticed a woman being attacked outside the restaurant and went to help. That's when Ramirez said she became a victim too.

Rufus O'Terrill, the pub's owner, says Nickyonna Wallace attacked Ramirez and bit her in the chest.

"She bit a big gash out of my bartender's breast," said O'Terrill.

O'Terrill is not only upset by the incident, but he told Channel 2 Action News reporter Pam Martin that he doesn't understand why Fulton County Judge Melynee Leftridge allowed Wallace to go free on a $6,500 signature bond.

"I'd like to find out directly from the judge why she did that ... because what we're seeing here is multiple offenders being released through an open door at the Fulton County jail system," said O'Terrill.

Ramirez has since moved to Tennessee and told Martin by phone that she'll need plastic surgery. She said she won't return to Atlanta because she has two children and doesn't want to take any chances.

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