New information has been revealed after three of five suspects in a Hardin County case made plea deals.
The deals provided investigators a better picture of what might have led up to a woman being attacked and nearly killed last January.
The victim, Dealynn O’Connor, said strangers attacked her and tried to force her to jump off the Matthew Welsh Bridge in Brandenburg in January 2016. Schawn Millin, Angela New, Christopher Deaton, Marc McCoy, and Trevor Brown were each facing different combinations of charges including kidnapping with serious physical injury, robbery, and attempted murder. On Tuesday (3/14) in Hardin County Circuit Court, each suspect had a pretrial conference. Millin, New, and Deaton took plea deals with the Commonwealth. In exchange for their testimony at trial, the murder charges will be dropped if the judge deems their testimony truthful.
Millin answered questions from the Commonwealth attorney stating Marc McCoy brought O’Connor to her home in Radcliff, and admitted there was meth in her home at the time. She also told the judge McCoy and O’Connor talked about going to California with a third person to get meth, bring it back, and sell it. Millin said there was a struggle with O’Connor at one point. Millin said she called Trevor Brown to come get O’Connor and McCoy out of her home.
Christopher Deaton said he got a call from Brown to follow a car but he did not know who was inside or what was going on. He told the judge he followed the car to the bridge and stopped then saw Brown get out of the car in front, and then Brown got a woman out of the car holding a sheet on her head. Deaton said he didn’t see what happened and that Brown never said what happened.
New said everyone in the home was doing meth and stated O’Connor asked them if they would distribute the meth she and McCoy planned to bring back from California. New said the situation escalated when she thought O’Connor had a gun. New admitted to punching her and took her money while McCoy continued to hit and kick O’Connor. New said she left and never knew what happened to O’Connor after that.
Marc McCoy and Trevor Brown did not make plea deals on Tuesday. Both of their attorneys made motions for continuance. Each of the five suspects is still going to trial, the plea deals only change how many charges each person faces. The trial is scheduled to start Monday (3/20). The judge could make a decision on the motion for continuance by Thursday (3/16).
Six months after O’Connor was attacked, she was shot and killed at her home by a different person. This trial for the five suspects is not connected to her murder.
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