A 24-year-old Lake Charles man will serve 25 years for a brutal 2014 home invasion.
Joshua Ray Bryant pled guilty Monday in state district court to armed robbery, armed robbery with a firearm and second-degree kidnapping. He had also been accused of second-degree sexual battery, but prosecutors dropped that charge.
According to the Lake Charles police, Bryant, along with Sedric Lamar Green II, broke into a Stanton Street home in November 2014 and assaulted and robbed the woman living there. Deputy Chief Mark Kraus stated at the time that Bryant and Green had also tied the victim’s hands, covered her head and stole a shotgun, a handgun, a cellphone, an iPad and a computer as she knelt on the floor “scared and helpless.” Police also arrested a third suspect, Jaylin Cortez Jack, in connection to the crime.
The victim spoke briefly before Bryant’s sentencing Monday. She described having a pillowcase put over her head before she was repeatedly beaten with a gun and had her teeth knocked out.
“They chose to continue to beat me and ask for a trophy gun that I didn’t know about,” she said.
She said that she continues to live with nightmares and pain in her head.
Judge Ron Ware sentenced Bryant to serve 20 years for armed robbery, five years for armed robbery with a firearm and 20 years for second-degree kidnapping. Ware ordered that the terms for armed robbery and armed robbery with a firearm be served consecutively and without benefit of probation, parole or suspension of sentence. The second-degree kidnapping sentence is to run concurrent with the others.
Bryant was the last of the three suspects to be sentenced.
Green plead guilty to all of his charges Feb. 8 and was sentenced to 20 years for armed robbery, five years for armed robbery with a firearm, 15 years for second degree sexual battery and 25 years for second degree kidnapping. All terms are running concurrently. And, like Bryant, Green will serve the armed robbery and armed robbery with a firearm charges without benefit of probation, parole or suspension of sentence.
Jack pled guilty on February 12 and was sentenced to suspended terms of five years for accessory after the fact to armed robbery and two years for accessory after the fact to second degree kidnapping. He was placed on supervised probation for five years.
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