A Woodland woman received probation and jail time Thursday for her role in a three-on-one beating in Davis that left the victim hospitalized.
Norma Linda Gentry’s sentence was the result of a plea agreement she made last month, admitting to an assault charge in connection with the May 5 attack in the 300 block of K Street.
Her codefendant, Davis resident Jose Alex Flores Rodriguez, 27, is serving three years’ probation after pleading no contest last month to battery causing bodily injury, online court records show. A third suspect still remains at large.
Davis police Lt. Art Camacho said at the time of the incident that the male victim had three “guests” inside his apartment when an argument broke out around 6:30 a.m. It soon escalated to a three-against-one physical altercation, he said.
“It is alleged that one of the attackers hit and kicked the victim multiple times to his face and body with an unknown object and the second hit the victim on the head and body with an aluminum baseball bat,” Camacho said. “The third attacker reportedly hit the victim to the head and body with a steel pipe.”
During Thursday’s sentencing hearing, Gentry’s defense attorney said the three defendants had “taken justice into their own hands and went overboard” in response to a domestic-violence incident involving the victim.
As the victim underwent treatment for his injuries at Sutter Davis Hospital, police launched an investigation that led Gentry and Rodriguez’s arrests. The third suspect, 23-year-old Dominique Ian Krogstad of Davis, remains at large despite a warrant being obtained for his arrest.
Gentry previously served probation and jail time for her role in a November 2015 hit-and-run fatality in Woodland in which Gentry’s then-boyfriend struck and killed Woodland resident Richard Tafoya, 65, as he walked his dog on Mariposa Street.
Prosecutors said Gentry, a passenger in Contreras’ pickup at the time, conspired with her then-boyfriend, Raymond Contreras, by telling Gentry’s father Roberto Sanchez they had damaged the pickup by striking a tire. Sanchez, in turn, filed a false insurance claim saying he had been driving the truck when it hit a milk crate on the highway.
Sanchez also was sentenced to probation and jail time, while Contreras received a four-year, eight-month state prison term, according to prior reporting by The Davis Enterprise.
— Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene@davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @laurenkeene