Rochester Man Sentenced For Two Machete Attacks

Rochester, MN (KROC-AM News) - A Rochester man with a violent past was sentenced today for two machete assaults.

Olmsted County court records state that 39-year-old Anthony Nolan King-White was accused of attacking a man in a downtown Rochester parking ramp and assaulting another man at a northwest Rochester home last year. The first incident occurred in early February and was followed by the attack in Ramp 6 next to the Hilton Hotel on the night of St. Patrick's Day last year.

Man Attacked in Parking Ramp

In that case, the criminal complaint says Rochester police responded to a report of an assault at the ramp and found the victim bleeding heavily from his forehead with a T-shirt wrapped around the wound. He told officers that a man he did not recognize swung a machete at him while he was walking in the ramp. The victim required seven stitches to close the large laceration on his forehead.

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The court document says a security camera recorded the assault and was used by investigators to identify King-White as the suspected assailant. A search warrant was then executed at his home, and he was arrested after investigators located a machete.

Earlier Assault With Machete

King-White was charged with second-degree assault. He was charged with the same crime, along with fifth-degree assault, about a month earlier after police responded to a machete attack at a home along Elton Hills Drive Northwest.

The charges connected to that incident say the victim suffered a laceration on his neck and was transported to a hospital for treatment. The criminal complaint states that the victim and King-White were involved in a physical altercation when King-White grabbed a machete and swung it at the other man.

Prison Sentence

He earlier entered into a plea agreement covering both cases and admitted to a second-degree assault charge for the machete attack at the home along Elton Hills Drive and an amended charge of third-degree assault for the attack on the man in the Rochester parking ramp. He was sentenced today to a total of 51 month prison for both convictions with credit for 341 days already served in jail.

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King-White previously served a nearly four-year prison sentence for a knife assault on a teenage girl in 2016. Court documents say the 17-year-old victim suffered two stab wounds that required surgery. In that case, he entered an Alford plea to a second-degree assault charge, which means he did not admit guilt but acknowledged there was enough evidence to convict him.

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