Robert Hall, 54, remained in the surgical intensive care unit on Thursday at Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach, where he was being treated for a broken pelvis, broken facial bones and bleeding in his brain, according to the sheriff's office. PHOTO: FILE
Robert Hall, 54, remained in the surgical intensive care unit on Thursday at Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach, where he was being treated for a broken pelvis, broken facial bones and bleeding in his brain, according to the sheriff's office.
The attack took place in a rural part of New Smyrna Beach, a popular Florida resort town, where Hall typically stayed at the home of his ex-wife, Jeanette Morris, 61, while she was away working as a truck driver.
Morris suspected that Hall had allowed his girlfriend in the house and arranged for a deputy to escort her when she returned to her home Tuesday night in order to avoid a confrontation, the sheriff's report said. The deputy left the house after Morris told him she would spend the night at her brother's house.
Instead, Morris and her brother, Harold Anderson, 63, and a woman named Joan Hobart, 46, began drinking vodka with Hall. The three turned on him, shocked him three times with a stun gun, punched him in the face and put a gun to his head, the sheriff's report said.
They tied Hall's hands behind his back then tied his ankles together and attached the rope to the bumper of a pickup truck and dragged him for half a mile, the report said. After the truck stopped, the three tossed Hall into the truck bed, cut off some of his hair and talked about scalping him and looking for a hole to bury him, according to the report.
As the truck took off again, Hall leaped out and ran to a house for help, the report said.
Morris, Anderson and Hobart are each charged with attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, false imprisonment, aggravated battery and aggravated assault.
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@Final Solution: & G.Din,
Thanks both of you for sharing your wisdome, without which I would have not understood the news properly. Have fun and Chil
@G. Din: Plenty such 'incidents' have occurred in Pakistan too, most famous being the Sialkot Brothers incident and the latest being in Dadu, Sindh where an 'alleged' blasphemer was dragged from police station, beaten and kicked to death then his dead body burned.
@comment: "These kind of incidents are usually seen in movies." Nothing new. American blacks have been victims of such "incidents" quite often in the American south at the hands of Whites. There was an "incident" in Texas where the man was decapitated and his other parts had to be collected before burial.
Interesting. These kind of incidents are usually seen in movies. Now, I have heard about this in actual practice. Mann......!!! Must have been tough for the guy, though it seems that, it was his fault, to ask another woman in his ex-wife's (and that too a truck driver) house. ...!! This is stupid