Arkansas man sentenced for beating Colorado man at the Farmington Motel

FARMINGTON — An Arkansas man was sentenced to 10 months in jail for assaulting a Colorado man on Oct. 3, 2021, whereas the 2 had been on the Farmington Motel on Farmington Falls Street.

John M. Murphy Franklin County Detention Middle picture

John M. Murphy, 53, of Nashville, Arkansas, pleaded responsible to felony aggravated assault on April 5 and was sentenced the identical day in a Farmington courtroom.

A second felony cost of aggravated assault and a misdemeanor cost of assault had been dismissed within the plea settlement.

Farmington police Officer Ryan Rosie responded to the motel in 2021 and located a person with severe accidents to the left aspect of his head and his left eye gave the impression to be swollen shut, based on Rosie’s affidavit filed in a Farmington courtroom.

A number of witnesses advised Rosie they thought Mark Schuttloffel, who was 55 on the time, was struck with a wrench. Schuttloffel was taken by NorthStar EMS ambulance to Franklin Memorial Hospital in Farmington.

Each males had been working on the identical job in Farmington.

After reviewing the surveillance video on a big display, Rosie mentioned he noticed Murphy initially punch Schuttloffel.

“I then noticed Murphy seize an merchandise from the again of his waistband and … I may hear the merchandise putting” Schuttloffel, based on the affidavit.

Talking with Schuttloffel on the hospital, Rosie mentioned, “I noticed a number of parallel lacerations on his head in keeping with a protracted merchandise. The emergency room employees added that the accidents couldn’t have been brought on by a fist strike.”

Murphy was given credit score for 3 days he beforehand served.

He confronted as much as 10 years in jail for the conviction.