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Final two defendants sentenced in cell-phone recorded beating in Spotsylvania
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Date published: 10/23/2009
By PAMELA GOULD Kyle Antwan Brown was the last of nine teenagers sentenced in a cell-phone recorded beating of two Spotsylvania County teens and the only one to deny his involvement. That decision didn't prove popular with visiting Judge J. Howe Brown Jr. Judge Brown cited that as one of two factors in setting Kyle Brown's sentence in Spotsylvania Circuit Court yesterday. Kyle Brown, 19, received a five-year sentence with one year to serve for unlawful wounding, a felony. Co-defendant James Eugene Massey Jr., 18, received a three-year sentence with six months to serve on the same charge. The judge said that when you sentence a group of people for their involvement in a crime, you need to be consistent but also evaluate each person's situation individually. Two things were key in determining the appropriate sentence for Kyle Brown, the judge said. "One is, Mr. Brown is the only one of the people who hasn't admitted to what he did," the judge said. "A second thing is, he was a stomper. He stomped on the head of [one victim]; I think probably [the other victim] also." Though Kyle Brown, like the other eight defendants, signed a plea agreement that spelled out their actions in the Jan. 11 incident, he denied attacking either of the young men who were seriously hurt. The victims, then 18 and 19, showed up at a field in the Stoneybrooke subdivision that Sunday afternoon for what they expected to be a pickup football game. Instead, they were confronted with accusations they had beaten up a neighborhood boy and the younger brother of one defendant. The victims deny the accusations, and no evidence was put forth at any of the hearings to substantiate them. The attack began when the first victim was sucker-punched and knocked unconscious. He was then stomped on. His jaw was broken in multiple places, requiring surgery and hospitalization. The second victim was attacked when he tried to come to his friend's aid. He was pushed, punched, and knocked to the ground where he was kicked, hit and had his head stomped on. He suffered head injuries and continues to have no feeling on the left side of his mouth.
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