MABANK, Texas — A man pled guilty to manslaughter in a 2015 dispute which turned deadly for a Mabank man.
MABANK, Texas — A man pled guilty to manslaughter in a 2015 dispute which turned deadly for a Mabank man.
57-year-old Roy Dwayne Toney pled guilty to manslaughter in the case and was sentenced to six years in prison.
On June 29, 2015, then-52-year-old Larry Suratt of Mabank, Texas, was mowing at his mother’s house on County Road 4012 in southeastern Kaufman County when police say Toney arrived to also work on the property.
Kaufman County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Captain Fred Klingelberger, at the time of the original incident, says the two became involved in a dispute which eventually led to Toney running over Suratt with his truck and trailer.
Suratt sustained several injuries for which he later died on July 7, 2015 — enhancing Toney’s original charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon to a murder charge. Toney’s murder charge was later dismissed and, instead, he was indicted for manslaughter for which he was scheduled to stand trial for in January 2017.
Toney pled guilty to manslaughter during a plea hearing on November 10, 2016, was sentenced to six years in prison, and ordered to pay a $1,500 fine and $296 in court costs.
During the original dispute, Toney’s truck and trailer became wedged in between two trees as he attempted to flee the scene. Suratt’s mother, reportedly in her 70s, shot Toney in the leg with a shotgun as he attempted to further flee on foot.
