The remaining two suspects are now in custody in connection with last week's attack on an 81-year-old Wise County man. Marvin Zimmerman was robbed, shocked with a stun gun and left bound in his home for at least two days before a concerned neighbor found him.
Christopher James Hammons, 26, and Michael Anthony Cordova, 33, both of Fort Worth, were in the Wise County Jail on Wednesday on suspicion of injury to the elderly. Bail was set at $100,000 each.Sheriff David Walker said the men and Roger Lee Hammons, 49, believed to be the younger Hammons' uncle, were acquaintances of Jimmy Murrell, an ex-con who had been living with Zimmerman in his home near Boyd.Murrell and Roger Hammons were arrested Monday and remained in jail Wednesday.Walker said three of the men are believed to have attacked and robbed Zimmerman while the fourth waited in a car."They were trying to find his belongings," Walker has said. "Whenever he was wasn't cooperating with him, they bound him, they assaulted him and shocked him with a stun gun."Zimmerman was found with his hands handcuffed behind his back and with duct tape circling the handcuffs and his feet, head and eyes. He told investigators that the men also gagged him.Walker has said it appeared that the suspects "just left him for dead thinking nobody checks on him."Zimmerman remained hospitalized Wednesday.Christopher Hammons has convictions for burglary of a vehicle and driving while intoxicated. He was accused of threatening a woman with a knife and charged in March with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, Tarrant County records show.Cordova was sentenced to six months' deferred-adjudication probation in Tarrant County for theft of property in September 2009. The case was dismissed after he completed his probation.Roger Hammons has a long list of convictions dating to 1982, including several thefts of vehicles, burglary, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and felony DWI, Tarrant County records show.Walker said Zimmerman allowed Murrell and his girlfriend to move into his house some time ago, much to the dismay of Zimmerman's relatives."The family has been working on trying to protect their father and get these people out of the house," Walker said.Tarrant County court records show that Murrell has been convicted of forgery and of delivery/manufacturing of a controlled substance. In 1995, he was sentenced to two years in prison for attempted murder for stabbing a couple in Sansom Park. He was charged in May with theft in Saginaw, records show.Walker said Murrell's girlfriend has been in the Tarrant County Jail and is not a suspect in the attack on Zimmerman.Authorities plan to seek charges of aggravated robbery and injury to the elderly, both first-degree felonies, against all four men, Walker said.Deanna Boyd, 817-390-7655Twitter: @deannaboydHave more to add? News tip? Tell us
