Carter Strange Beating: Oldest Attacker Gets 15 Years

 

Victim Carter Strange, pre-diversity
 

Carter Strange, after encountering diversity
 
By David in TN

While other events were in the news, Tyheem Henrey, the oldest of the eight people charged in the “random” beating of Carter Strange, pled guilty on April 18 to criminal conspiracy and assault and battery of a “high and aggravated nature.”

“Circuit Judge Alison Lee sentenced Henrey to five years on the criminal conspiracy charge and 15 years for assault and battery. The sentences run concurrent with each other, which means he’ll serve 15 years total. After accounting for time already served, he will serve at least 85 percent of that sentence.”

Four of the suspects, who stood across a street and watched the beating received probation. Three others have yet to be tried. One is a juvenile who will be tried in family court. The other two will be tried as adults.

Law officers and others said if passers-by hadn’t found Strange two hours later and called 911, he “might well have died.”

 

June 24, 2011: Tyheem Henrey listens as Carter Strange's father expresses his sorrow for Henrey's family and his hope that he will one day forgive Henrey for what he allegedly did to his son. Tyheem Henrey, 19, had a bond hearing, Friday, for his alleged role in the beating of an 18-year-old who was running home through five points to make curfew on Monday. The hearing was held at Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center.
 

[Previously, on the Carter Strange case, at WEJB/NSU:

“Columbia, SC: In Non-Bias Attack, Eight Raceless Assailants Jump 18-Year-Old from Behind, Beat Him Almost to Death” ;

“One Suspect (Out of Eight) Indentified in Columbia, S.C., ‘Jogger Assault’”;

“Near Fatal, Columbia, SC, 8-on-1, Black-on-White Attack Not a Hate Crime”;

“Columbia, SC, Hate Crime: Bond Hearing, Charges Laid”;

“8-on-1, Suckerpunch, Black Hate Crime Attack on Carter Strange in Columbia, SC: Selected Reader Comments to WLTX’ ‘8 Suspects in Custody for 5 Points Beating of 18-Year-Old Carter Strange’”;

“Carter Strange Beating Update, on NBC Today Show”;

“Carter Strange Beating: Some Juvis to be Charged as Adults; Otherwise, Usual, ‘Not-a-Hate-Crime’ Official Story”;

“In Carter Strange Case, Defense Attorneys Argue Black Attackers Who Beat White Within an Inch of His Life were ‘Just Having Fun,’ and Can’t Possibly be Convicted of Conspiracy; Prosecutors: Two Juvis Should be Tried as Adults”;

“Carter Strange Beating Update”;

“‘Twenty Strikes, and You’re Out!’: Yet Another Carter Strange Attacker Gets a Break”;

“The Carter Strange Case: Vicki Strange Speaks Out Against Judge’s Kid Gloves Treatment of Black Assailant Who, as Part of a Racist Lynch Mob, Sucker-Punched, Stomped, and Left Her Son for Dead”; and

“Update on the Carter Strange Lynching.”]