Disabled man attacked with brass knuckles

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COLUMBUS, GA (WTVM) - A disabled man was assaulted by a group of men with brass knuckles.

The incident took place Thursday evening, but the victim didn't report the aggravated assault until Saturday afternoon while he was in the hospital.

Columbus Police reports show the victim tells them a group of black men assaulted him at his home on Munson Drive.

The victim says he was struck in the face with brass knuckles and he then fell to the ground. He tried to get up and run away but the individuals surrounding him made it impossible. He then tells police he was hit and kicked all over his body.

He was transported to the Medical Center to be treated from bruises, cuts and several teeth that were knocked out during the attack.

He did not have a description of the suspects

Killers of disabled man appeal murder convictions

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KENT NEWS: A gang of vigilante killers jailed for kicking and punching a disabled man to death are to appeal against their convictions next month.

The four claim they never intended to murder Ted Shaxted. The 36-year-old received horrific injuries from a brutal attack in his flat, and later died in hospital.

Police tracked down the gang of four and they were eventually convicted of murder at Maidstone Crown Court in February, 2009.

The court had been told Mr Shaxted had been arrested after getting drunk while visiting his girlfriend Doreen Goode.

Her sister Karen Horlock is the mother of one of the killers. Mr Shaxted had taken Mrs Horlock’s Peugeot and dog Poppy and then got into an accident.

Unhappy with the police response, the son and his gang launched the brutal assault leaving Mr Shaxted with fatal injuries in December, 2007.

He died from multiple organ failure two weeks later.

Disabled man attacked in his own home

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A 52-year old man was found slumped on his sofa with a broken leg and collapsed lung 15 hours after two men assaulted him with his own walking stick.

The victim had let the two men into his house in Whitehall Street in the early hours of Saturday.

They sat in the front room with the victim asking him for cigarettes, drugs and money. The offenders became angry when they found that he did not have any, with one of them kicking the victim in the face as he was sitting on the couch.

He then picked up the victim's walking stick and used it to hit him at least 10 times on the head, as well as his shoulder, ribs and shin.

During the assault one of the offenders also stamped on the victim's head. The offenders then left the house with the walking stick.

The victim was unable to move and was found by a relative in the same position later that day at 8pm. He was taken to hospital for treatment to a broken leg, broken ribs and punctured lung as well as cuts and swelling to his head and remains there in a stable condition

Disabled Victim: Phone May Have Sparked Attack

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A disabled teenager who was brutally beaten on a street near his home Tuesday said his cell phone may have been what sparked the attack.

Jerome Brown, 19, who is mentally challenged, was attacked at the intersection of Parkman Street and Dorchester Avenue about 4:40 p.m., left bloody and screaming for help. He said the attack was not random."They hit me in the face. My face was crashed up. I was OK. I got up, walked, but I was limping at the same time," Brown said.

He said he knew the attackers and said they may have wanted his cell phone.

"Over a phone, like, who wants a phone? Like, everybody has a phone ..." Brown said.

A witness said he was inside his home when he heard "awful screams" coming from the area and saw Brown curled up on the ground getting kicked and punched by a group of teens.