A Mountain Home man charged in June last year with involvement in his second shooting incident pled guilty to the charges against him during a session of Baxter
Ryan James Lindsey
A man accused of being involved in the murder of 35-year-old Cody Stradford recently picked up new charges while an inmate in the Baxter County jail.
In late March, 28-year-old Ryan Lindsey was observed by a jail staff member, “waving a ‘shank’ made from a broken piece of Plexiglas around in his cell.”
Attempts to have Lindsey give up the homemade weapon voluntarily didn’t work and a special team was assembled to resolve the situation.
WANTED A DEAL
Lindsey is reported to have tried to bargain with the jailers, saying he would let them have the homemade knife if they would give him a can of “dipping tobacco.”
Ryan Lindsey (left) and Allison Cunningham
Murder victim Cody Stradford was alleged to have loudly begged two men to stop hitting him during a violent, and ultimately deadly, encounter at a Mountain Home residence on Dec.4 last year.
According to information just released by 14th Judicial District Prosecutor David Ethredge, 28-year-old Ryan Lindsey and 38-year-old Skylar Whitney Brazil are reported to have beaten the 35-year-old Stradford for up to an hour while he “begged for it to stop.”
It was also announced Monday that the death penalty will be sought for Lindsey and 42-year-old Allison Cunningham. Investigators report Lindsey and Cunningham have allegedly admitted to acquaintances they both shot Stradford at some point during the episode.
Photo: Ryan James Lindsey and Allison June Cunningham
Charges against two of the four people suspected of being involved in the murder of 35-year-old Cody Stradford have been amended to capital murder, meaning the death penalty could be on the table.
Forty-two-year-old Allison Cunningham and 28-year-old Ryan James Lindsey, both of Mountain Home, are now facing the amended charges. They were both arrested in Hidalgo County, Texas.
A bond hearing for Cunningham had been scheduled during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Monday, but was canceled. Bond for both Cunningham and Lindsey remains set at $1 million each.
Prosecutor David Ethredge said Cunningham’s attorney, Gary Mitchusson of Forrest City, had been made aware of the amendment in the charge.
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