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Two more teens jailed in Spotsylvania beating

September 24, 2009 12:00 am

By PAMELA GOULD

Two more Spotsylvania County teens were sent to jail today for their role in the video recorded beating of two teens in January.

Matthew W. Shepherd, a 2008 graduate of Courtland High School, received a 3-year sentence with all but six months to serve for felony unlawful wounding.

Jonathan R. Longtin, a 2009 Courtland graduate, received a 12-month sentence with all but two months suspended for misdemeanor assault and battery.

The two were among nine Spotsylvania County teens who were each originally charged with two counts of malicious wounding by mob, a charge carrying up to 20 years in prison and a $100,000 fine.

The teen victims were attacked on a Sunday afternoon in January after they showed up at a field in the Stoneybrooke subdivision to play pickup football.

Both victims were hospitalized as a result of the attack. One suffered a broken jaw; the other suffered a head injury doctors initially thought was a brain injury.





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