A second man will go to prison in connection with an assault on a Hoquiam couple in late December and one more person believed to be involved in the case is still at large.
Steven D. Skolrood, 27, of Westport, was sentenced in Grays Harbor Superior Court Monday to one year and five months in prison. He was convicted of third-degree assault in a trial last week.
Earlier this month, Kenneth Jones Jr., 30, of Hoquiam, pleaded guilty to second-degree assault and was sentenced to five years, 10 months in prison. A third man, believed to be Cody Carden, is wanted in the case.
Skolrood’s sentence is at the bottom of his standard sentencing range of from 17 months to 22 months.
The assault took place outside the couple’s apartment Dec. 29. The male victim had been at a neighbor’s party earlier where there was apparently a disagreement over sharing a cigarette. Carden allegedly grabbed a beer out of the victim’s hand and used a racial slur.
The male victim returned to his apartment, where the three suspects soon followed. He armed himself with a baseball bat and answered the door, but the men allegedly grabbed him, pulled him out of his apartment and threw him down the stairs.
They continued beating the man at the bottom of the stairs, apparently with his own bat, court documents state. The man’s girlfriend tried to intervene, but was knocked down and struck in the head, also likely with the bat. The woman suffered “a significant head laceration” and possible concussion, according to court documents and the man suffered an orbital fracture and injuries to his lip and scalp.
The man suffered a broken orbit bone and a broken bone in his jaw. The woman suffered a severe head laceration, which required about seven staples to close.
Brionna Friedrich: 360-537-3933 or bfriedrich@thedailyworld.com and @DW_Brionna on Twitter.
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