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BREAKING NEWS: Home invasion victim dies
Published June 24, 2009
LOGANVILLE – The three assailants who beat an elderly Loganville couple in a violent home invasion last month will now be facing murder charges following the death one of the victims.
According to Maj. Dick Lowry, Deputy Chief of the Loganville Police Department, 65-year-old Epsie Ewing died Tuesday at Atlanta Medical Center as a result of the injuries she sustained in the attack.
According to Walton County District Attorney Ken Wynne, murder warrants were immediately sought for the three men allegedly involved in the attack. Barry Marquez Partee, 18, Corey Butler, 28, and John J. Blackwell, 18, all of Monroe, had been arrested within a week of the attack and were being held without bond in the Walton County Jail. They were due to appear in the Walton County Superior Court for a hearing Thursday morning to face charges relating to the alleged beating and robbing 70-year-old C.F. Ewing and his wife at their Loganville home in the early afternoon of May 21. Wynne said it had not yet been determined whether filing the additional charges of murder would delay the hearing.
The three men were alleged to have approached C.F. on the pretext of wanting to buy his pickup truck the day before the attack and had him give them a test drive. They allegedly returned the following day and forced the couple into the house, beating them with a pistol before getting away with a wallet containing $117 in cash.
According to Loganville Police Chief Mike McHugh, Epsie was so severely beaten she sustained broken bones in her jaw, face, wrist, arms and fingers. She was lifelighted to Atlanta Medical Center where she remained in a critical condition until her passing this week. Her husband was treated for his injuries at Gwinnett Medical Center the day of the attack and released the following day.
At the time, Wynne said all three men were facing charges of armed robbery, aggravated battery, kidnapping and false imprisonment and Butler faced an additional charge of possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. The charges carried a possible penalty of 20 years on the aggravated assault, 10 years on the false imprisonment charge and potential life sentences on the armed robbery and kidnapping charges. Wynne said the additional charges of murder would upgrade those potential penalties to mandatory life sentences.
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