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La Mesa Man Pleads Not Guilty in Road Rage Beating of Elderly Driver

Posted by Alexander Nguyen on August 1, 2014 in Crime | 527 Views
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Ron Torncello, after his April 30 attack by a man apparently motivated by road rage. Photo credit: Fox5SanDiego.com.
Ron Torncello, after his April 30 attack by a man apparently motivated by road rage. Photo credit: Fox5SanDiego.com.

A La Mesa resident accused of severely beating a 76- year-old man during a road-rage confrontation outside an East County drugstore, leaving him with injuries that required several rounds of surgery, pleaded not guilty Friday to elder abuse and assault charges.

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Thomas Clayton Sikes, 56, was arrested July 24 in connection with the April 30 attack.

Judge Evan Kirvin increased the defendant’s previously posted bail of $35,000 to $150,000, and he was taken back into custody.

Sikes faces nine years in prison if convicted, said Deputy District Attorney Carlos Campbell.

The 6-foot-3-inch, 285-pound defendant allegedly attacked the older man about 10 a.m. April 30 during a dispute in a parking lot in the 500 block of Fletcher Parkway in El Cajon, then fled in a red SUV.

Surveillance cameras captured images of the incident.

“The fight was over an apparent road-rage incident,” said El Cajon police Sgt. Jason Taub.

Officers arrived to find the victim suffering from severe facial injuries that required hospitalization and extensive follow-up medical care, according to police. Sikes was arrested after police received an anonymous tip.

A readiness conference was scheduled Sept. 11 and a preliminary hearing set for Oct. 15.

— City News Service

La Mesa Man Pleads Not Guilty in Road Rage Beating of Elderly Driver was last modified: August 1st, 2014 by Alexander Nguyen

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