Crime & Safety
Tanner Hendee Pleads Guilty to Transient Assault
A 19-year-old man pleaded guilty Monday in an assault charge of a homeless man in Ramona back in May.
A 19-year-old man who delivered a knock-out punch to a 61-year-old transient, abandoning him in a vacant house in Ramona, pleaded guilty Monday to assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury.
Tanner Hendee will be sentenced Sept. 6 by Judge John Thompson. Paramedics found the the victim, Scott Kingston, on his back in a house in or near the 100 block of 11th Street just before 5:30 p.m. on May 7, according to San Diego County sheriff's Sgt. Daniel Vengler.
Kingston was flown to a trauma center with head and possible spine injuries, Vengler said.
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According to court testimony, Hendee and Kingston had clashed before.
Prosecutor Shanish Aloor said Hendee believed the other man to be a sex offender.
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–City News Service