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Man Sentenced For Violent Attack Of A Man Outside Of A NW Nightclub
A 22-year-old Falls Church, VA man, Miguel Avalos, has received an eight-year prison term for a violent attack upon a man outside an Adams Morgan nightclub in May 2006 that left the victim a quadriplegic, U.S. Attorney Jeffrey A. Taylor announced today.
Avalos was sentenced yesterday in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia before the Honorable Herbert Dixon, Jr. Avalos pled guilty in October 2006 to the charge of Aggravated Assault. In sentencing the defendant, Judge Dixon departed upward from the defendant’s sentencing guidelines range and sentenced the defendant to the statutory maximum of eight years of imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release. The Court found that the defendant exhibited deliberate cruelty toward the victim, inflicting gratuitous violence upon him.
According to the government’s evidence, in the early morning hours of May 7, 2006, the victim was attempting to enter a nightclub in Adams Morgan. The bouncer of the nightclub told the victim that the club was closing and that he could not enter the club. While the bouncer was talking to the victim, the defendant, who did not work for the nightclub, approached the victim. The defendant asked the victim if he had heard what the bouncer had said. The victim told the defendant to mind his own business.
The defendant and several other unknown assailants slammed the victim into a grate that was adjacent to the nightclub. The defendant and the unknown assailants began to brutally beat and kick the victim, who was lying defenseless on the ground.
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