Men accused of causing wreck, attack
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ELKINS -- Two Randolph County men are behind bars after allegedly purposely causing another vehicle to wreck on Rich Mountain and then attacking the driver and passengers.
Nathan Charles Sendling, 23, of Beverly, is facing two felony counts of malicious wounding and a felony count of conspiracy. Cody Wallis Sendling, 20, of Mabie, is facing three felony counts of malicious wounding and a felony count of fleeing with reckless indifference.
Cody Sendling is being held in the Tygart Valley Regional Jail on a $30,000 cash only bond. Nathan Sendling is also being held at TVRJ on a $30,000 cash only bond.
According to criminal complaints filed in Randolph County Magistrate Court by West Virginia State Police Trooper R.C. Wilson, on Jan. 11 at 5:35 p.m., the trooper received a call from Randolph County 911 in reference to a single-1vehicle accident on Rich Mountain near the battlefield.
While en route, the officer was informed a female subject called saying the incident was also "some form of domestic as well." The female caller stated that her ex-boyfriend, Cody Sendling, attempted to crash into her vehicle multiple times with his truck.
"(The female victim) stated that once she stopped, Mr. Sendling had gotten out of his truck and began hitting her and kicking her," the complaint states. Wilson requested assistance from the Elkins Police Department and an EPD unit responded to Rich Mountain from the Beverly side while Wilson responded from the Mabie side. Randolph County 911 informed the officers that the pickup truck involved in the incident, a black Ford Ranger, had fled the scene.
The complaint states that around 6:02 p.m. as Wilson was responding to Rich Mountain he saw the truck matching the description traveling down Rich Mountain Road and turned onto Coalton Road. Wilson attempted to initiate a traffic stop on the truck, but the truck began to flee down Coalton Road toward Coalton.
"The vehicle accelerated to speeds above 70 miles per hour on the single lane gravel road for approximately two miles," Wilson writes in the compliant. "The undersigned officer lost visual of the vehicle due to the amount of rock dust coming from the road."
According to the complaint, the Ford truck and the trooper passed a Department of Highways vehicle on Coalton Road. The plow truck driver told the officer that the pickup truck had passed him at a high rate of speed. The Ford truck then turned onto the rail grade before coming into Coalton. Wilson could not pursue the truck, but the Elkins Police Department unit told Wilson via radio that there were two male subjects located on Rich Mountain Road near the top of the mountain with injuries and were being transported to Davis Medical Center for treatment.
The Elkins officers also had located an uninjured female involved in the incident with the two males who was going to be transported back to Elkins by EPD officers, the complaint states. The Elkins unit also informed Wilson that the original caller had left the scene prior to their arrival and was traveling toward the Mabie side of Rich Mountain.
According to the complaint, while searching for the Ford Ranger that had fled, Wilson observed the black Scion Ion involved in the incident being driven by the alleged victim. Wilson, along with another EPD unit, made contact with the driver and observed the vehicle had significant damage to all sides, front and back. She told officers that Cody Sendling had passed her on Rich Mountain and he backed up, then turned around and hit the side of her car and she ended up in the ditch.
The complaint states the alleged victim told officers that Cody and Nathan Sendling got out of the truck along with two other individuals. She said Cody Sendling began hitting her. She said once he started on her again that he left and she did as well. She told the officers three other people were in the car with her.
Wilson asked who Nathan Sendling fought on the mountain and she said she did not know because she was being attacked, according to the police report. Wilson asked why she left everyone who was with her on the mountain when she left and she told officers that nobody was there when she left. The alleged victim told officers that Cody Sendling pulled her hair, hit her in the head and on the cheek and attempted to pull her out of the vehicle by her hair. She told officers she did not need medical treatment but Wilson observed injuries to her face and forehead.
According to the complaint, at 6:47 p.m., Wilson arrived at Davis Medical Center where the three additional alleged victims were located. An EPD unit assisted Wilson with taking statements from the three individuals. The first passenger said he was on his way home in the back seat of the Saturn and a Ford Ranger hit them and forced them off the road and then beat them down while they were trying to get away. He identified the female alleged victim as the driver.
Wilson asked the first passenger if the man who hit the car physically struck the female driving the car he was in. He responded he did not know and that he just knew there was "one hell of a fight up there," the complaint states. Wilson asked why he did not leave in the car he was riding in and he stated he and the others ran away because they were being beaten up.
The complaint states that the second passenger said they were getting a ride home and a Ford Ranger came up and hit the bumper of the car and then side-swiped the car. He told officers that a couple of guys then got out of the truck and they got out of the car to see what was going to happen. He said, "A dude in a camo coat and two others started a fight with him and one of the guys punched him in the face and shoved him in the ditch and started stomping on him.
The second passenger said they shoved away the individual wearing the camo coat and then left, and then the alleged attackers tried to run the second passenger over, according to the police report. The second passenger told officers that he did not know the alleged attackers expect Cody Sendling.
The final statement was obtained from a third passenger. She told officers they were traveling up Rich Mountain and met a Ford Ranger in a turn, the complaint states. She said the truck had stopped, backed up and began chasing them up Rich Mountain and rammed them in the back and then side-swiped them. She said the truck blocked them in.
She said the two other passengers exited the vehicle and Cody Sendling was standing there with other males and a female, the police report states. She said the alleged attackers jumped the other two passengers. She said as they were walking down Rich Mountain afterward the Ford Ranger attempted to run them over. She stated she called 911 and as they continued walking the police arrived and the Ford Ranger fled.
According to the complaint, Wilson observed the passengers as well as the driver to have sustained significant injuries from the altercation.