Glendale : 2 Plead Guilty in Beating
Two men have pleaded guilty to charges involving the attempted murder of a disabled, homeless man who was stabbed, beaten and struck with rocks while he slept beside railroad tracks in Glendale.
Police said Robert Wade Cambell, 39, almost died after the Aug. 2 attack. Officers said they found no motive for the attack, in which the assailants also stole the crippled victim’s crutch.
On Jan. 8, Morgan Lee Baker, 29, of Glendale and Monte Mark Coorough, 22, of Tujunga both pleaded guilty to attempted murder with special allegations that a knife was used and that the attack caused great bodily injury, Deputy Dist. Atty. Jeanne Behling said.
Under the plea agreement, Behling dropped a charge of aggravated mayhem, and Pasadena Superior Court Judge Terry Smerling said he would sentence them to 13 years in state prison at a Jan. 23 hearing.
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