Family Is Outraged After a Racist WS, Wesley Caldwell, That a Struck Black Golfer in the Head With a Golf Club Only Has a $5K Bond and Has Been Released on that $5k Bond. Thuggish WS Attacker was only charged with aggravated assault and not with attempted murder and Hate Crime. The Victim's Family is Seeking Justice.
Photo of THUG ATTACKER and WS SUSPECT Wesley Caldwell
The Victim, Mark Coleman, Who is Fighting for His Life and is on Life Support
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Witnesses describe a vicious, unprovoked attack on a Whitehaven golf course. The victim is now on life support at Regional One while the suspect is a free man on a $5,000 dollar bond.
The Memphis chapter of the NAACP said the Shelby County justice system got it wrong in this case. The group’s demanding upgraded charges and a higher bond for the accused assailant.
When a ball from Mark Coleman’s group landed on the green while Wesley Caldwell’s group was putting, a witness told Memphis Police that Caldwell got so upset he swung his putter at Coleman’s head when he came to retrieve the ball.
The club landed with such force, it cracked Coleman’s skull and caused a brain bleed. As Mr. Coleman battles to live, his friends and family now battle for justice.
In the past week, the local NAACP chapter was shocked to learn the bond for 22-year-old Wesley Caldwell, the man who allegedly hit a man in the head with a golf club on Dec. 3, was just $5,000, even while the victim remained on a ventilator.
“You know, the bond was so low given the past history of the attacker,” NAACP President Van Turner said. “But they didn’t have his full criminal history from DeSoto County, and now they do. Perhaps it will be revisited.”
The Shelby County DA’s Office announced on Dec. 15 that it was taking a closer look into the incident at the NAACP’s request.
Bonds for those cases, and all others in the Shelby County General Sessions Criminal Courts, are decided by 10 judicial commissioners - attorneys who are appointed, not elected, to the job.
When asked why judicial commissioners set bonds instead of the judges, Turner said, “Because there are so many cases that come through Shelby County, the judges would have to be on the bench 24/7.”
Photo of THUG ATTACKER and WS SUSPECT Wesley Caldwell
The Victim, Mark Coleman, Who is Fighting for His Life and is on Life Support
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Witnesses describe a vicious, unprovoked attack on a Whitehaven golf course. The victim is now on life support at Regional One while the suspect is a free man on a $5,000 dollar bond.
The Memphis chapter of the NAACP said the Shelby County justice system got it wrong in this case. The group’s demanding upgraded charges and a higher bond for the accused assailant.
When a ball from Mark Coleman’s group landed on the green while Wesley Caldwell’s group was putting, a witness told Memphis Police that Caldwell got so upset he swung his putter at Coleman’s head when he came to retrieve the ball.
The club landed with such force, it cracked Coleman’s skull and caused a brain bleed. As Mr. Coleman battles to live, his friends and family now battle for justice.
NAACP demands upgraded charges for accused attacker released on $5k bond
Witnesses describe a vicious, unprovoked attack on a Whitehaven golf course. The victim is now on life support at Regional One while the suspect is a free man on a $5,000 dollar bond.
In the past week, the local NAACP chapter was shocked to learn the bond for 22-year-old Wesley Caldwell, the man who allegedly hit a man in the head with a golf club on Dec. 3, was just $5,000, even while the victim remained on a ventilator.
“You know, the bond was so low given the past history of the attacker,” NAACP President Van Turner said. “But they didn’t have his full criminal history from DeSoto County, and now they do. Perhaps it will be revisited.”
The Shelby County DA’s Office announced on Dec. 15 that it was taking a closer look into the incident at the NAACP’s request.
Bonds for those cases, and all others in the Shelby County General Sessions Criminal Courts, are decided by 10 judicial commissioners - attorneys who are appointed, not elected, to the job.
When asked why judicial commissioners set bonds instead of the judges, Turner said, “Because there are so many cases that come through Shelby County, the judges would have to be on the bench 24/7.”
Breaking down the bond process in Shelby Co.
The call from the NAACP Memphis office to raise the bond for the suspect in a brutal golf course attack led Action News 5 to take a closer look at how the bond system works.