Man sentenced to 5 years for killing another in Fort Worth parking lot fight
A Mansfield man was sentenced on Friday to five years in prison for killing a man during a fight in a Fort Worth business parking lot.
Jonathan Michael McCully, 31, was sent to prison on a charge of criminally negligent homicide in the incident where Nathan Brown of Roanoke was killed.
McCully had been charged with murder in August just days after Brown died.
But Richard Brown, Nathan Brown’s father, told prosecutors earlier this month that his son was previously diagnosed with a bipolar disorder, and he had not been taking his medication, instead drinking alcohol for self-medication, according to a court document.
McCully got into a fight with Nathan Brown on Aug. 11 outside of the Electric Cowboy.
Brown, 25, was pronounced dead at 5:30 p.m. Aug. 11, hours after he was assaulted outside the Western-themed nightclub, authorities said. The Roanoke man died at a Fort Worth hospital.
Patrol officers were called to the fight about 3 a.m. on Aug. 11 in the 8700 block of Camp Bowie W. Blvd.
Officers determined Brown and another man, who was later identified as Jonathan McCully, got into a fight in a parking lot outside the bar.
Brown was rushed to the hospital, where he was declared brain dead.
Brown died from blunt-force injuries he suffered in the assault, according to the Tarrant County medical examiner’s website. His death was ruled a homicide.
McCully has a criminal history in Tarrant County. Since 2008, the Mansfield man has been arrested on charges of theft, drug possession and unlawful carrying of a weapon, according to Tarrant County criminal court records.
This report contains information from Star-Telegram archives.
