More than than three weeks after they allegedly severely beat and robbed a man in Darlington, two people were arrested Monday and charged in connection with the crime.
Sharron Litrell Braxton, 33, of Edgewood, and Nathan Thomas Coit, 36, of Baltimore, are both charged with attempted first-degree murder, armed robbery, robbery, first-degree assault, second-degree assault and theft with a value of less than $1,000, according to court records.
Each appeared before Judge David Carey Tuesday in the Harford County District Court in Bel Air via video link from the Harford County Detention Center, where they are being held without bail.
The hearing for Coit was postponed to Wednesday. Laura Garcia, his public defender, said she had not been able to talk with him before the afternoon hearing and she requested an additional day to meet with him. Carey granted the request.
The hearing for Braxton, who was booked on no bail, proceeded, and the judged ordered her to remain in jail without a bail.
Coit is also charged in a separate case with two counts of driving with a suspended license and one count of driving without a license. He failed to appear in court on those charges last Thursday, according to Carey
The attempted murder and robbery happened June 24, according to police charging documents.
The victim told Det. Seth Culver, of the Harford County Sheriff's Office that he was visiting a residence in the 2200 block of Glen Cove Road in Darlington when the suspects attacked him outside the dwelling.
The pair assaulted the victim with "tubular metal objects," stole $200 in cash, his wristwatch, bicycle and wedding ring and then dragged the semi-conscious victim to a creek and threw him in the water, according to Culver's report
The victim got out of the creek, but the suspects attacked him again, the charging documents state.
The Sheriff's Office was alerted at 9:23 p.m. The EMS workers who tended to the victim found he had multiple fractures on his face and jaw, plus abrasions, contusions, lacerations and swelling on his body.
He was taken to a trauma center, according to Culver's report. The victim told police that Braxton and Coit, whom he knew, had attacked him, the charging documents state.
Garcia, Braxton's public defender, said in court Tuesday that her client has two children and lives in Edgewood with her father. Garcia said Braxton has not worked since 2013, and she receives public assistance.
She asked Carey to set a "reasonable bail."
The prosecutor, Molly Callanan, said Braxton has three previous failures to appear in court and stressed how the victim allegedly had been struck in the face with a metal tube and dumped in a creek.
She said Braxton had displayed "an extreme level of violence" and described the defendant as "an ongoing danger to the community" and a "flight risk."
"I do consider [Braxton] to be a flight risk," Carey said, declining to set bail.