PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – After deliberating for more than 2 hours, a jury returned a unanimous guilty verdict regarding David Ray Bartol.
For the last 2 weeks, Bartol — a “Krude Rude Brood” gang member — has been on trial in Multnomah County Circuit Court for using his gang’s torture chamber to attempt to kill two men.
Bartol has been in and out of detention centers since he was 15 years old, according to court documents. His first arrest came in 1989.
Bartol tried to kill of two men, Nicholas Remington and Ron Murphy.
Sentencing will be September 6 at 2 p.m. before Multnomah County Judge Michael Greenlick.
As the verdict was read, Bartol remained seated with his hands clasped together. He showed no visible reaction.
The defense team, lead by Steve Gorham, told KOIN 6 News that they are “disappointed” with the verdict and will appeal.
“There are a zillion appeal issues in this case,” Gorham said.
The defense presented Bartol as a person who has brain damage because his mother drank during her pregnancy.
“He did not have the capacity, because of his brain damage, to have intent,” Gorham told the jury during his closing statements. “He’s a kid – he’s a bragger.”
Nicholas Remington
The crimes against Remington occurred in late December 2012 at Tom’s Auto Body located near Southeast 84th and Southeast Powell Blvd. Investigators learned the auto body shop is where Brood “gang members work, hang out and conduct drug transactions.”
Remington was also affiliated with the gang.
According to prosecutors, the motive for Remington’s attempted murder was the belief that he was responsible for a theft from a Krude Rude Brood member.
Remington was kidnapped at gunpoint and forced into a vehicle. He was driven to the auto body shop where Bartol and David Corbit stripped, tortured and beat Remington with a baseball bat.
Remington described the torturing in court saying Bartol used a belt sander to remove a Brood tattoo from his upper arm, telling him repeatedly that he is “going to die,” and placing a motorcycle helmet on his head and then shooting him in the head multiple times with a rifle with a silencer.
After torturing Remington, Bartol and Corbit injected Remington with a syringe of heroin in the neck and another syringe of meth into the arm.
His body was then dumped on the street.
Ron Murphy
The attempted murder of Ron Murphy occurred in mid-February 2013.
Murphy told investigators that he went to the auto body shop and that’s when Bartol, and 3 other men, forced him into the back of the shop into a spray paint booth where “he was tortured and beaten with a baseball bat.”
At one point, Murphy tried to escape and stabbed one of his attackers before being shot in the abdomen by Bartol.
Murphy was “dumped in the middle of SE Powell Blvd. where he was nearly run over,” according to court documents.
Murphy had “serious permanent injuries and later died of a heroin overdose,” according to court documents.
Marion County Homicide Investigation
Bartol is scheduled to go on trial in Marion County in September for the death of Gavin Siscel.
Siscel died days after being attacked in June 2013 while inside the Marion County Jail.
According to court documents, Siscel was watching TV in a dayroom when Bartol walked over to the deputies’ desk area and grabbed a flashlight. He put the flashlight inside the front of his pants and walked up to Siscel from behind.
Bartol took the flashlight from his pants and struck Siscel in the back of the head.
KOIN 6 News will continue to follow this story.
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