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Updated: 5:18 PM Sep 3, 2008
Vigilante justice assault suspects arraigned in Ardmore
ARDMORE, OK -- Two more young men accused of brutally spanking an Ardmore man in late July went before a judge on Wednesday. Jeremy McGinnis, 18, and Ronnie Morris, 22, were formally arraigned Wednesday morning. They face assault and kidnapping charges.
Posted: 1:19 PM Sep 3, 2008Reporter: KXII-TV Staff Email Address: firstnews@kxii.com |
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ARDMORE, Okla. -- Two more young men accused of brutally spanking an Ardmore man in late July went before a judge on Wednesday.
Jeremy McGinnis, 18, and Ronnie Morris, 22, were formally arraigned Wednesday morning. They face assault and kidnapping charges.
Police say the two, along with two other suspects, beat a man more than 250 times with a leather studded belt in what they believe was an attempt at vigilante justice.
One of the identical twin brothers accused of a brutal attack was in an Ardmore courtroom Tuesday morning.
Colby Chase McGinnis, 18, is facing assault and battery charges after a July incident in which another young man was spanked more than 250 times with a studded leather belt. Authorities say the attack was an attempt at vigilante justice.
The incident happened July 23 at a home in the 900 block of west main in Ardmore. Investigators believe alleged ringleader 29-year-old Ronnie Morris was angry at the victim for allegedly forging hot checks in Morris' name. They say the trio of men confronted the victim, taking the law into their own hands, becoming judge and jury, and then giving the victim a choice of punishment ranging from dismemberment, to graphic mutilation, to hundreds of brutal lashes across the backside.
Police say Colby and Jeremiah McGinnis, both 18 years old, and Morris, took turns administering lashes to the unidentified victim.
"Out of 19 years in law enforcement , I haven't seen anyone spanked this severely like the victim was. He had severe bruising on his buttock areas," Capt. Kevin Woods of the Ardmore Police Department said in July.
Another suspect, Rolanda Braxton, pleaded guilty to assault and battery charges Wednesday afternoon and received a four year suspended sentence.
Braxton she was accused of hitting that victim in the head with a pipe before the brutal beating at the hands of three others.
Braxton will be required to serve six months of that sentence in the county jail.
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