On last week, Bryant Tunson of 116 Thomas St. Paincourtville, LA, age 50, pled guilty to 2nd Degree Battery. Tunson was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Lana Chaney, and presiding over this matter was the Honorable Judge Keyoujuan Turner. This guilty plea was the result of a plea agreement with prosecutors in connection with the attack of an Assumption Parish grocery store employee.
On February 3, 2018, Assumption Parish Sheriff’s Deputies responded to an area grocery store after a shoplifter attacked a store employee. Upon arrival, deputies made entry into the store office where they observed Bryant Tunson and the employee. The employee had a large laceration to the head area along with multiple other scrapes and markings to his body. Throughout the office were broken liquor bottles, and a large amount of blood from wounds sustained by the employee. Deputies learned that the employee confronted Tunson after Tunson was observed shoplifting. At some point during the encounter, Tunson struck the employee multiple times resulting in injuries requiring medical attention. The employee was transported to an area hospital where he was treated by medical staff. Tunson was arrested and transported to the Assumption Prish Detention Center where he was booked accordingly.
Upon entering a guilty plea to the above-mentioned charge, pursuant to the plea agreement with prosecutors, sentencing was deferred to a later date pending a Pre-Sentence Investigation.