{"id":7410,"date":"2011-07-12T09:47:50","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T16:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=7410"},"modified":"2011-07-13T03:30:45","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T10:30:45","slug":"deal-in-salkum-homicides-mccarthy-to-plead-to-second-degree-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=7410","title":{"rendered":"Deal in Salkum homicides: McCarthy to plead to second-degree assault"},"content":{"rendered":"

This news story was updated at 8:05 p.m.<\/em><\/p>\n

By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker
\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n

CHEHALIS – The deal between prosecutors and one of the men charged in last summer’s triple homicide near Salkum is that he will plead guilty to two counts of second-degree assault, according to his attorney.<\/p>\n

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Ryan J. McCarthy<\/p><\/div>\n

Rick Cordes, the lawyer for 29-year-old Ryan J. McCarthy, said yesterday his client is set to plead guilty at 1 p.m. on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Cordes said he didn’t feel comfortable commenting on any details of the plea agreement before the hearing.<\/p>\n

McCarthy was charged with murder as well as attempted extortion in connection with the Aug. 21 deaths of David West Sr. 52, his son David West Jr., 16, and a friend Tony E. Williams, 50, of Randle.<\/p>\n

McCarthy’s former cell mate, John A. Booth Jr. is scheduled for a November trial in the case; also charged with murder.<\/p>\n

Booth, 32, is charged with\u00a0 first degree murder of David Jr. and Williams; second-degree murder of West Sr. and attempted murder of Denise Salts, as well as attempted extortion and unlawful possession of a firearm.<\/p>\n

Lewis County Chief Criminal Deputy Prosecutor Brad Meagher said last week he would not discuss the details or what if anything either side offered in exchange.<\/p>\n

Meagher did say he Cordes have agreed upon the amount of time they will recommend to the judge that McCarthy serve.<\/p>\n

Charging documents in the case don’t offer much detail as to who fired shots that night.<\/p>\n

A man who told deputies he saw West Sr. point a shotgun at Booth and tell the two men to leave, said he then heard gunshots though he could not tell who was firing, and he ran into a bathroom and hid, according to charging documents.<\/p>\n

The charging documents say Salts told detectives when she heard gunshots, she ran in through the back door, was shot in the face, fell to the floor and heard other gunshots.<\/p>\n

McCarthy’s attorney said in September after his client’s arraignment, he didn’t think there was enough to have charged McCarthy, as “mere presence at a crime isn’t enough.”<\/p>\n

Second-degree assault is a class B felony with a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine.<\/p>\n

Among McCarthy’s seven prior felony convictions are one for residential burglary and two for drugs.
\n\u2022\u2022\u2022<\/p>\n

Read background on the case:<\/p>\n

\u2022 “West Sr. pointed shotgun telling pair of ex-cons to leave his house, triggering triple homicide, unsealed court documents allege” from Saturday Sept. 4, 2010, here<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 “Unsealed document: More details on Salkum slayings” from Monday Sept. 6, 2010, here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This news story was updated at 8:05 p.m. By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter CHEHALIS – The deal between prosecutors and one of the men charged in last summer’s triple homicide near Salkum is that he will plead guilty to two counts of second-degree assault, according to his attorney. Rick Cordes, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-7410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7410"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7416,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7410\/revisions\/7416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}