Ronald Coy
A Maryville man is now facing a felony charge after a fight sent his elderly father to the hospital
61-year-old Ronald Coy is now charged in Nodaway County with a first-degree felony for Elder Abuse for allegedly beating his 87-year-old father.
Coy had originally been charged with second-degree Domestic Assault but the charge was upgraded last week.
As we previously reported, court documents state that Coy caused physical injury to his father by striking and/or kicking about his body causing bleeding, an injury to his jaw that may require surgery to insert a metal plate, and an injury, pain, or discomfort to his kidney-area of his back.
In a probable cause statement signed by Maryville Public Safety Officer, Sarah Kahmann she said she responded to a medical emergency in which Coy’s father was sitting in a chair, his face covered in blood.
“His face was visibly cut and bloody, was well as blood on his hands,” Kahmann said. “Stated that his son, ‘Ronnie’ had assaulted him, over an argument of spoiled meat.”
Coy is being held on $50,000 bond cash or surety.