A state court jury Thursday gave a punishment of 18 years in prison to a Mauriceville man found guilty of aggravated assault for stabbing a man at the Orange Boat Ramp in 2016.
The stabbing was about 6:30 the evening of August 6, 2016, near where the weigh-in for the annual OCARC fishing tournament was being held.
The jury in Judge Dennis Powell’s 163rd District Court first found 36-year-old Samuel Cecil Sanchez guilty of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and then decided on the punishment.
Assistant District Attorney Krispen Walker said Sanchez had a 2011 conviction of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon-motor vehicle after running over another driver following a small collision. He was not eligible for probation for the stabbing because of the previous crime.
At the boat ramp, Brian Gordy of Bridge City was stabbed in the neck after an altercation with Sanchez where the boats are launched. Walker said Sanchez had picked an argument with Gordy and another man sitting on a pontoon boat that had been pulled from the water.
She said Sanchez had hit Gordy, who was 50 years old at the time, and then stabbed him in the back of the neck when he was down. Orange police reported Gordy was taken by ambulance to the hospital in Orange where he was treated and released.
-Margaret Toal, KOGT-
Below, authorities searched for knife after altercation.
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