Convicted killer to stand trial, accused of assault Leader-Telegram
CHIPPEWA FALLS - A convicted murderer who is charged with assaulting two men at a Chippewa Falls motel in July 2008 will be going to trial in August.
Arthur G. Simmons, 38, of Altoona faces seven felony charges for the assault. Simmons is accused of attacking the two men at 5 a.m. July 24, 2008, in their room at the Indianhead Motel, 501 Summit Ave., as they were getting ready to leave for a construction job. One victim was struck with a metal pipe tube, the police report states. The other victim was struck numerous times with a similar object.
Simmons was arrested in August and has been in the Chippewa County Jail since, facing felony charges for armed robbery, substantial battery with the intent of bodily harm, bail jumping and burglary. The trial is slated for Aug. 4-6.
According to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, Simmons was convicted of second-degree murder in July 1986, when he was 16. He was waived into adult court. He was sentenced to nine years in prison, according to the bureau's Web site.
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