Posted in Felonies on February 8, 2014
Two men were in Clark County Superior Court this week for the stabbing of Jason L. Stricker, 32, who survived the attack.
Byron K. Chant, 24, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Tuesday, and Gilberto Martinez, 30, accepted a plea deal on Friday in exchange for the prosecutor dropping a first-degree assault charge. He pleaded guilty to Assault 3 and Assault 4 and was sentenced to one year in jail for his role as an accomplice.
In October 2010, Stricker was involved in an altercation in the parking lot of a gas station on N.E. Fourth Plain Boulevard. An employee called 911 and the fight was broken up. Stricker had gone back to his vehicle and was in the passenger seat when he was stabbed in the chest.
A sweatshirt and baseball hat were found at the scene and used to collect DNA. The DNA evidence pointed to Martinez. When the DNA found on a cigarette butt in the same location led to a woman named Ashley R. Beckley, she said the sweatshirt was hers and the hat belonged to Martinez. She identified Martinez and Chant and told investigators that after the fight Chant had armed himself with a knife and gone over to Stricker’s vehicle. Beckley said that Chant told her he had stabbed the victim and that Martinez had “had his back.”
Martinez was arrested in Michigan and extradited to Clark County.
Source: The Columbian, “Accomplice in stabbing gets year in jail,” Paris Achen, February 7, 2013.
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