A MACY, NEBRASKA MAN HAS BEEN FOUND GUILT OF ASSAULT FOLLOWING A THREE-DAY JURY TRIAL IN FEDERAL COURT IN OMAHA
34-YEAR-OLD TAYLOR GRANT WAS FOUND GUILTY OF ASSAULT RESULTING IN SERIOUS BODILY INJURY.
PROSECUTORS SAY GRANT ASSAULTED A WOMAN LAST JUNE WHO WAS LATER FOUND
WALKING IN THE ROAD IN MACY.
THE VICTIM WAS NEARLY UNRECOGNIZABLE DUE TO FACIAL SWELLING AND THE SEVERITY OF HER INJURIES.
SHE WAS HOSPITALIZED FOR SURGERY TO REPAIR HER BROKEN JAW.
AUTHORITIES LOCATED GRANT A MONTH LATER.
HE TOLD AN FBI AGENT THAT HE HAD NOT ASSAULTED THE VICTIM BUT HAD SEEN HER INJURIES AND BELIEVED HE WOULD BE BLAMED SO HE WENT TO SIOUX CITY AND STAYED IN A MOTEL.
GRANT WILL BE SENTENCED JUNE 25TH AND FACES UP TO TEN YEARS IN PRISON.
