The man seen on the viral videos of the Montgomery boat dock brawl striking two people with a folding chair has pleaded guilty in municipal court.
Reggie Ray, 42, of Montgomery, entered the guilty plea to disorderly conduct Monday morning before Montgomery Municipal Court Judge Milton Westry. The charge is a misdemeanor. Ray was sentenced to 90 days in jail, which was suspended, and ordered to perform 50 hours of community service and pay court costs totaling $357.
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Neither Ray nor his attorney, Virgil Ford, offered any comment as they left the courtroom.
Ray became involved in the brawl after the initial fight was over. City officials have declined to comment on why Ray was not charged with misdemeanor assault. However, Richard White, attorney for Richard Roberts, a defendant charged with assault in the case, said the woman Ray struck with the plastic folding chair decided not to press charges. Videos posted on social media showed Ray also struck a man with the folding chair.
Ray is the last defendant to have a hearing in the melee.
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Zachery Shipman, of Selma, and Allen Todd, of Orange Beach, each pleaded guilty to the lesser charges of harassment and must each serve 100 community hours, pay all court costs as well as a $100 fine and attend an anger management course. Shipman will serve his community service hours in Selma and Todd in Orange Beach. They were each originally charged with misdemeanor assault.
As part of the plea deal, Shipman dropped assault charges he had filed against Dameion Pickett, co-captain of the Harriott II.
Richard Roberts, of Selma, entered guilty pleas to two counts of misdemeanor assault against Pickett and Daniel Warren, a 16-year-old deckhand on the boat. Pickett and Warren accepted the guilty pleas.
Roberts was sentenced to 32 days of a four-month suspended jail sentence, to be served on weekends in a Perry County facility. He must complete 100 hours of community service and pay court costs totaling $714, records show.
Mary Todd, also of Selma, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor harassment in the assault on Pickett. Pickett accepted the plea deal. She was ordered to attend anger management class and pay $357 in court costs.
Mary and Allen Todd are brother and sister.
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On the evening of Aug. 5, the riverboat Harriott II was returning from a two-hour cruise and could not dock because privately owned pontoon boats were moored in the riverboat’s slip.
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Pickett and Warren went ashore to ask the owners to move the boats, and a brawl erupted captured by dozens of cell phones. The footage showed Pickett, who is Black, being repeatedly struck by the group of white boaters as frustrated riverboat passengers looked on. It went viral on social media sparking media attention and outrage nationally.
Warren is white and the four co-defendants charged with assault are white. Ray is Black and the people he struck with the chair are white.
The FBI investigated the brawl and found no evidence of a hate crime in the incident.
Alex Gladden contributed to this report. Contact Montgomery Advertiser reporter Marty Roney at [email protected].
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