Ex-Cal. U football players sentenced
Two former California University football players were sentenced to probation in a case stemming from the off-campus beating of a man in 2014.
D’Andre Dunkley, 20, of Philadelphia, and Shelby Wilkerson, 22, of Harrisburg, each pleaded guilty in Washington County court to a misdemeanor simple assault charge and were sentenced to 18 months probation, according to an order signed by Judge Gary Gilman and dated July 1.
Other charges against the men, including felony counts of aggravated assault and conspiracy, were dropped in their deal with prosecutors.
Dunkley and Wilkerson were among six university football players who were charged following the beating of Lewis Campbell, then 30, in front of Spuds Restaurant on Wood Street in California Borough in October 2014.
Campbell, of West Chester, suffered brain trauma and spent eight days in Allegheny General Hospital following the incident but recovered.
Another former player, Corey Ford, 24, of Harrisburg, pleaded no contest to aggravated assault last month in the same incident.
Gilman gave Ford, who was in the Washington County jail since November 2014, credit for time served so he could be transferred to Northeast Ohio Correctional Institution to begin serving a sentence on charges related to a Jan. 1, 2014, traffic accident in Washington, D.C., that seriously injured a bicyclist.
Cases against two other co-defendants, Rodney Gillin, 21, of Reading, and Jonathan Barlow, 22, of Pittsburgh, are pending in Washington County court.
Gilman dismissed charges against a sixth co-defendant, James Williamson, 22, of Parkville, Md., after video surveillance showed he did not participate in the attack.