EVERETT — Testimony continued Friday in the trial of an Index man accused of beating a Monroe man nearly to death in 2015.
Jordan Jensen-Green is of one of five men accused of taking part in the attack. Prosecutors allege that Jensen-Green wielded a baseball bat, repeatedly clobbering the victim in the head. The Monroe man suffered severe skull fractures and was on life-support after the Sept. 18, 2015, assault on Florence Acres Road.
He’d also been shot in the groin. Co-defendant Christopher Cardinale later admitted he shot the man. He claimed that he had fired a warning shot into the air and the bullet ricocheted off the garage, traveled through a wall and hit the severely injured man.
Cardinale pleaded guilty last year to multiple felonies, including first-degree robbery, second-degree assault and burglary. He also admitted to dragging a Snohomish County sheriff’s deputy with his vehicle for some 25 yards during an escape attempt. The deputy was not seriously hurt.
Cardinale, 54, was sentenced to nearly 16 years in prison.
Bruce Michael, 51, pleaded guilty to residential burglary and was sentenced to about five years behind bars. Two other men, Troy Russ and Robert Criswell, received jail sentences, pleading guilty to property crimes in connection with the incident.
Jensen-Green, 33, denied attacking the victim when questioned by detectives. He told investigators there had never been any physical altercation between the two. He also denied knowing some of the co-defendants.
Prosecutors allege that Jensen-Green believed the victim had stolen a trailer from him. The other men agreed to help him retrieve the trailer. Cardinale told police he’d recovered a friend’s stolen vehicle from the same location, according to court papers.
“It was apparent to (deputies) that the location was also being used as a ‘chop shop,’ where stolen vehicles had parts removed and the hulks abandoned on the property,” prosecutors wrote in court papers.
The property was well-known to law enforcement for prior investigations into stolen property and drug sales.
Jurors on Friday heard from a neighbor who summoned help after two people staying on the property came to her house, pounding on her door. They reported being robbed at gunpoint during the incident. The neighbor lady called 911 after seeing the battered victim lying on a garage floor.
“I was yelling, ‘What happened to him,’ ” the woman told jurors. “I tried to talk to him.”
Diana Hefley: 425-339-3463; hefley@heraldnet.com.
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