May 23, 2008 1:03 pm US/Eastern
Suspect In Homeless Death Makes Plea Deal
Billy Ammons is charged with first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder on three homeless men in '06
FT. LAUDERDALE (CBS4) ―
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A court decided it will allow a statement be presented in court which was made by then 18-year old Billy Ammons in the death of Norris Gaynor.
CBS4 News
Billy Ammons pled guilty on Friday before Broward Circuit Court Judge Cynthia Imperato. He will be sentenced on August 20th, facing ten to twenty years. In February, a Ft. Lauderdale judge ruled that she would allow a taped confession presented as evidence in the murder trial of a South Florida homeless man in 2006 by the accused 20 year old.
At issue back then was whether the statement made by then 18-year old Ammons was properly obtained.
Now 20, Ammons is charged with first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder in the attacks on three homeless men in 2006 including Norris Gaynor.
At first denying that he was involved in any of the attacks, Ammons reportedly admitted to detectives that he was there when Gaynor was beaten to death in 2006.
Two other men, 20-year old Brian Hooks and 19-year old Thomas Daugherty, have also been charged in Gaynor's death. They've also been charged with aggravated battery in the videotaped beating of another homeless man, 58-year old Jacques Pierre, who was attacked the Fort Lauderdale campus of Florida Atlantic University.
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