Look Who it Was Random video

Near-Fatal Beating Case Going To Trial

1,244 views · Published 10 September 2012 · 2:52 · Indexed 20 October 2026

Channel: WTVC NewsChannel 9 · 2012 · News & Politics

Watch on YouTube

by John Pless  A young father is suffering deep emotional and psychological wounds after enduring a life-changing, severe beating.The man accused of trying to murder him is speaking out from jail, saying the story we've heard for months about what lead to the beating is a lie.Timothy Doyle couldn't appear on camera Wednesday. His facial appearance has changed and he lost his sense of smell and taste, according to his family. The man who put him in that condition said Doyle is not the good Samaritan his family and police said he is.Pictures of Doyle taken after the beating show severe bruising after all the bones in his face was broken from a near-fatal beating.   His sister Heather Doyle said "he's had a hard time identifying himself and coping with the differences."When we first spoke with Doyle's sister and Cleveland Police back in January they said Doyle was trying to be a good Samaritan in the parking lot of the Georgetown Road Waffle House at 2:30 a.m. New Year's Day. They said Avery Ladd, Jr. was beating his wife Crystal and Doyle tried to intervene.When police arrived they said they found Ladd on top of Doyle, pounding his face with his fists. Ladd is charged with attempted second degree murder.From the Bradley County Jail Ladd said he was provoked and threatened that morning by patrons and a waitress in the Waffle House. He said they were making derogatory and racial comments about him and his wife. He is black, she is white.He said they paid their tab, left the restaurant and encountered Doyle in the parking lot. Ladd said Doyle "got in his face," and continued making insulting comments. "I told him, I said man you don't know who you're messing with you need to watch your mouth, you don't know who you're talking to, this is my wife and again he stated F-U nigger and he swung at me," Ladd said.Ladd said he defended himself by returning the punches and continued beating Doyle once he fell to the ground. We asked Ladd's wife Crystal if her husband was beating her as others have said and she replied "no, absolutely not." Ladd admits he is on parole now for another beating ten years ago. He served seven years in prison for attempted second degree murder, the same thing he's charged with now. When Ladd was arrested in January police mistakenly said he was convicted of murder, which he says has tainted his image and chances of getting a fair trial from a Bradley County jury.We asked Doyle's sister, Heather, what she thinks about Ladd saying he was racially harassed and took the first punch, claiming to be the victim."Even if there was some taunting, which I don't know if that happened, I wasn't there, at what point do you not realize a face is destroyed," Doyle said.Doyle added Ladd had no reason to relentlessly beat her brother considering he's on parole and subject to arrest if he violates certain conditions of his parole."Him knowing about drinking and being out, knowing these things can happen, I mean how many lessons do you need before you say I've got to step away and not do that," Doyle said.The case is scheduled to go to trial September 26.

More from this channel