Post by Anja Nieser on Sept 10, 2006 22:32:43 GMT -5
2 men are in jail after amputee's ordeal, death
A late rent check likely is the reason behind the death of Barney Ross
Goodman, a double amputee, Liberty County sheriff's officials said
Thursday.
The check amounted to only a few hundred dollars, officers said. Cousins
Kenneth Dollery, 22, and Hollis B. Buckley, 21, are accused of beating
Goodman with a baseball bat Sept. 1 and then, while he was still alive,
dumping him off the San Jacinto River bridge, investigators said.
Goodman's prosthetic legs also went into the river, officials said.
However, despite being badly beaten, Goodman, 57, managed to use his arms
to crawl up to the road to get help.
He later died at Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston, but not before he
described his attackers, officials said.
Dollery and Buckley now face capital murder charges after giving
statements, Liberty County Sheriff Greg Arthur said in a telephone
conversation.
A 20-hour-long day of investigation ended when sheriff's deputies, with
Baytown police assistance, arrested Dollery and Buckley at a Baytown
trailer park at 3 a.m. Thursday.
"There is absolutely no reason to do something like that," Arthur said of
the killing. "(Goodman) couldn't do anything to them."
Goodman rented a room from Buckley's mother, Arthur said, and the
investigation indicated he was tardy on his monthly rent payments.
Arthur said Goodman reportedly agreed to get in the cousins' truck and was
then driven to an ATM in Baytown, where he withdrew cash. Arthur said the
bank's drive-through surveillance camera taped the 3 inside the truck cab.
Later, Goodman apparently was clubbed in the head and had $600 taken from
him, the sheriff said.
"They showed some remorse," he said of the two after they were arrested.
"But I'd have to speculate if it was for getting caught or for doing the
crime. I don't know."
After being driven into Liberty County and abandoned on the river bank,
Goodman spent eight to 10 hours crawling up to County Road 2090, where a
passing motorist spotted him, officials said.
Dollery and Buckley were being held without bond Thursday in the Liberty
County Jail.
If convicted, they face the death penalty or life in prison.
Outside of misdemeanors, such as driving with a suspended license, neither
cousin had a serious criminal past.
(source: The Beaumont Enterprise)
A late rent check likely is the reason behind the death of Barney Ross
Goodman, a double amputee, Liberty County sheriff's officials said
Thursday.
The check amounted to only a few hundred dollars, officers said. Cousins
Kenneth Dollery, 22, and Hollis B. Buckley, 21, are accused of beating
Goodman with a baseball bat Sept. 1 and then, while he was still alive,
dumping him off the San Jacinto River bridge, investigators said.
Goodman's prosthetic legs also went into the river, officials said.
However, despite being badly beaten, Goodman, 57, managed to use his arms
to crawl up to the road to get help.
He later died at Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston, but not before he
described his attackers, officials said.
Dollery and Buckley now face capital murder charges after giving
statements, Liberty County Sheriff Greg Arthur said in a telephone
conversation.
A 20-hour-long day of investigation ended when sheriff's deputies, with
Baytown police assistance, arrested Dollery and Buckley at a Baytown
trailer park at 3 a.m. Thursday.
"There is absolutely no reason to do something like that," Arthur said of
the killing. "(Goodman) couldn't do anything to them."
Goodman rented a room from Buckley's mother, Arthur said, and the
investigation indicated he was tardy on his monthly rent payments.
Arthur said Goodman reportedly agreed to get in the cousins' truck and was
then driven to an ATM in Baytown, where he withdrew cash. Arthur said the
bank's drive-through surveillance camera taped the 3 inside the truck cab.
Later, Goodman apparently was clubbed in the head and had $600 taken from
him, the sheriff said.
"They showed some remorse," he said of the two after they were arrested.
"But I'd have to speculate if it was for getting caught or for doing the
crime. I don't know."
After being driven into Liberty County and abandoned on the river bank,
Goodman spent eight to 10 hours crawling up to County Road 2090, where a
passing motorist spotted him, officials said.
Dollery and Buckley were being held without bond Thursday in the Liberty
County Jail.
If convicted, they face the death penalty or life in prison.
Outside of misdemeanors, such as driving with a suspended license, neither
cousin had a serious criminal past.
(source: The Beaumont Enterprise)