Chester Irving is charged with aggravated assault for allegedly beating Paciano Gonzalez-Hernandez though he was landscaping someone’s garden.
Prosecutors added a despise criminal offense enhancement to the charge this week.
“The most significant challenge with anyone like Mr. Irving is when they have that loathe in their coronary heart like they do, they have a tendency to consider they are correct,” stated Steven Belt, the prosecutor on the case. “I will explain to Mr. Irving and any individual else in our group that there is no space in our group for despise.”
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Paciano invested four times in the hospital after currently being knocked unconscious on June 26 about a parking dispute.
“I you should not fully grasp why he hit me,” the longtime landscaper instructed ABC13 in a July job interview. “I do not say practically nothing, only notify him ‘Hey if you want to park proper in this article, no dilemma. I won’t slice the grass proper in this article. I will go above there.'”
Even right after he was on the floor in a pool of his personal blood, Paciano’s wife, Amalia, reported Irving retained beating her husband and yelling racial slurs.
“‘I want to send to Mexico,'” she recalled. “‘You really don’t have to be in this article.’ Numerous phrases and then whilst he’s on the flooring he starts off to strike him yet again, again.”
Paciano was ready to return to operate this 7 days. In the meantime, Irving is nevertheless in jail without a bond. Paciano’s spouse said she fears Irving will be introduced and assault or mistreat someone else.
ABC13 acquired surveillance online video as a result of a public record’s request from a seemingly unprovoked attack involving Irving on a Metro bus in Oct of 2018.
The 51-yr-previous can be noticed standing at the front of the bus by the driver. A Hispanic person bought on the bus at the North Loop and Airline Boulevard and attempted to spend his fare. Irving is then observed punching the man in the head, knocking him to the ground and then stepping on his head.
A passenger on the bus held Irving at gunpoint right until law enforcement arrived. Irving was not billed for the attack and it really is unclear why.
He was billed with a felony for medications that working day and was sentenced to two several years in prison.
Belt explained the online video from 2018 may perhaps arrive into play in the sentencing stage of his latest pending aggravated assault circumstance.
“It did open our eyes to who Mr. Irving is,” Belt explained. “Clearly, going forth in the scenario that facts of that previous incident will perform a large function.”
Simply because of prior convictions, the prosecutor reported Irving faces 25 years to daily life in jail.
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