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Jeffrey Bolden found guilty in security officer murder www.privateofficer.com
Bolden kicked Ruby in the back of the head in the emergency room. Springfield police arrested Bolden for assaulting his father and trying to set his father’s home on fire. A police dog who helped with the arrest put a deep bite on Bolden’s leg as Bolden hid in some bushes.
Medical examiners said Ruby died from an injured brain stem from the kick. Ruby collapsed moments after the kick, went into a coma and died a few days later.
Bolden’s defense attorneys presented medical experts who refuted the medical examiners, and said Ruby could have died from a stroke. They also argued Bolden had good reason to kick Ruby because Ruby had been choking him as he lay on a gurney.
A Greene County judge moved the case from Springfield to Columbia to try to ensure a fair outcome. Boone-Callaway county Circuit Judge Kevin Crane scheduled sentencing for Dec. 14. Bolden faces a prison sentence of 10 to 30 years (life) with possibility of parole for the murder conviction, and a sentence of five to 15 years for the assault conviction.
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Judge okays security guard’s body to be exhumed www.privateofficer.com
A Greene county judge will allow the body of a Springfield hospital security guard to be dug up from the grave.
Judge Mike Cordonnier agreed to the request Thursday made by the lawyer of Jeffrey Bolden.
Monte Ruby was buried last August, days after police say he was kicked in the head by Bolden who was brought to Cox North Hospital on August 2. Court documents say Bolden was arrested in connection with an assault and attempted arson.
Police had to use a dog to take him into custody. That’s why he was taken to the hospital; the dog had bitten him.
The court order granting exhumation says Bolden and Ruby knew each other before the incident.
Bolden claims when he was brought into the hospital that Ruby choked him.
Even though an autopsy was performed on Ruby’s body before burial, doctors did not scrape beneath his fingernails. The defense attorney suggests that’s where a pathologist would find signs Ruby choked the defendant.
Monte Ruby died four days after he was kicked in the back of the head.
Bolden is charged with second degree murder for the security guard’s death.
No date has been set for the exhumation. The medical examiners office says the process of scraping beneath the fingernails takes about 5 minutes.
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SPRINGFIELD MO Aug 7 2008 — CoxHealth said late Wednesday afternoon that one of its security officers, Monte Ruby, died from being kicked by an injured arrestee. Ruby was in a coma from Saturday afternoon from injuries to his brain stem and spine on Saturday afternoon.
Police said Ruby was trying to calm Jeffrey Bolden, who was agitated, unruly and handcuffed to a Cox North hospital bed while being treated for bites from a Springfield police dog. A city police officer accompanied Bolden to the hospital.
City police arrested Bolden earlier Saturday for assaulting his father and trying to set himself and his father’s home on fire. Police said Bolden couldn’t get a lighter to work after he doused himself in gasoline.
Bolden fled from his father’s home when police showed up. He hid in a brushy lot and police sent a dog in to find and subdue him.
Greene County prosecutors charged Bolden on Monday with assaulting a police officer. They’ll now consider manslaughter or murder charges against him.
Ruby had a state peace officer’s commission through the Greene County Sheriff’s Department. In addition to working at Cox North, he also worked at Ozarks Technical Community College’s Richwood Valley campus in Ozark.
On Tuesday, Greene County prosecutors also charged Bolden with beating his girlfriend with a cordless phone, a barbecue fork and his fists last January. They said Springfield police sent a report on that assault in February but prosecutors hadn’t had time to consider charges until now.
The charges filed on Tuesday are one count of first-degree domestic assault, one count of armed criminal action and two counts of second-degree domestic assault. The 41-year-old man also has previous charges and convictions for assaults, illegal drugs, felonious restraint, and unlawfule use of a weapon.
When Bolden was arrested on Saturday, there was a six-month-old warrant for his arrest for an assault on a neighbor last November.
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