BRUNSWICK COUNTY, NC (WWAY) -- Boyd Harrelson has been charged with Second Degree Murder in the baseball bat beating of a man in Leland who later died.
Harrelson had already been charged with assault with a deadly weapon.
Brunswick County Sheriff's deputies Friday arrested William Joseph Connolly for assaulting Hartford Talmage Sellers III New Year's Day. Connolly is in jail under $5,000 bond. Sellers died Friday of his injuries.
Deputies had already charged Nickolas Wayne Smith, with assault with a deadly weapon as well.
No bond has been set for Harrelson.
it's crazy how everybody is
it's crazy how everybody is looking at the guys who were arrested as the baad guys,but how can u judge somebody in a situation like that you don't know wat u would do if something like that happened...it doesn't mention about the guys who were in the car with sellers....or about how harrelson got hit first....
Personally no one knows
Personally no one knows really what happened but these guys. Talking crap about these guys don't make anyone look cool it makes them look like chickens who can't say the stuff to their faces. So all the rumors and smart comments need to be kept to yourselfs you don't know what happened that night so you can't say what this man deserves. Who knows maybe if you were in his shoes you would have done the same thing!!!! Ohh and they seemed to leave out the part that Harrelson was taken to the hopspital too!!! Always making some one look bad
Whaaaat? You mean this
Whaaaat? You mean this "tough guy" (see the look on his face?) had to use a bat? Dude, you know what they do with "bat like" sticks to guys like you in prison right? Can we find out their court date so we can go point and laugh?
Much sympathy to the victim's family.
Boyd aways been a hot head
Boyd aways been a hot head always in fights I myself got into it with him about four years a go I new then where he was headed back to prison ya that right he was lock up before for drugs you can look it up yourself
There yah go.....
2nd degree and keep the assault with a deadly weapon charge.
Lose on one charge and hit him with the other.
The scatter gun approach.
IN all honesty it appears as though one guy had it in for the victim and the other two were pinch hitters.
So it looks as though they have developed evidence that suggests at least for one attacker that murder was the goal.
Good job by the Brunswick County Sheriff's Office
Vog
Assault with a deadly weapon??
I would assume that three men beating a man in the head with a baseball bat would mean to kill him. If they didn't mean to kill him they would have broken his legs or knee cap or arms, right?
Murder!
Can someone please tell me WHY these savages weren't charged with murder?
Sure (I think)
Assault with a deadly weapon does not require proof of intent
Murder charges indicate the intent was to kill
I'm not a lawyer but I stayed at a Holiday Inn last night
Vog
WHATS YOUR POINT? IT TOOK 3
WHATS YOUR POINT? IT TOOK 3 MEN WITH BASEBALL BATS TO BEAT ONE MAN TO DEATH> THEY WERE VERY BRAVE, WERN'T THEY? COWARDS IS WHAT THEY ARE.
took 3
why haven't we asked for the death penalty.Comments are very nice compared........
At least....
At least they didn't assault him and then steal his food and go inside and est.
You missed his point
were they merely beating him or was their intent to kill him?
Much easier for the Prosector to prove the former rather than the latter.
Their defense might have been they were watching "The Untouchables" and each had an out of body experience as Robert DeNiro portraying Al Capone.