Home Headlines

WTAP Mobile Web >> Home Headlines

Send UPDATE: Athens Man Dies After Beating

All fields are required

Back to Home Headlines

UPDATE: Athens Man Dies After Beating

Posted: 11:43 AM May 4, 2012
Reporter: Allison Rhea

UPDATE: 5/4/12 3:00PM

Harley Pruitt, the victim of a vicious beating, died Friday afternoon in a Columbus hospital.

Deputies arrested Gary Wooten earlier this week and charged him with felonious assault.

That charge has been changed to murder.

Wooten is being held on a $50,000 bond at the Southeastern Ohio Regional Jail.

Sheriff's officials say witnesses told them it all went down at a Chauncey home.

They said after Pruitt and Wooten exchanged words, the situation escalated into a fist fight.

___________________________________________________
An Athens County man is beaten until he's unconscious.

Athens County Sheriff Pat Kelly says deputies responded to an assault at a home in Chauncey, Wednesday.

That's where they found 20-year old Harley Pruitt unconscious and not breathing.

Pruitt was flown to a Columbus hospital.

He's in critical condition.

Deputies arrested Gary Wooten, Wednesday night.

He faces a felonious assault charge.

He's at the Southeastern Ohio Regional Jail.