April 22, 2006 Harris County, Texas assault incident
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The April 22, 2006 Harris County assault incident refers to a beating during the early morning of April 22, 2006 in an unincorporated section of Harris County, Texas, United States. The details of the attack lead to publication of the story in various media outlets inside [1] and outside [2] of the United States. The site of the incident, located north of the city of Houston, has a "Spring, Texas" address, and is therefore identified as taking place "in Spring."
During a partly held at the Sons family house at 23122 Dew Wood Lane, Spring, Texas 77373, two students who attended Klein Collins High School, David Henry Tuck and Keith Robert Turner, brutally beat, tortured, and sodomized a 17-year old Hispanic Klein Collins student.
The attackers were both under the influence of recreational drugs, and claim to have been told that their victim tried to kiss, or made further sexual advances on Danielle Sons, the underage sister of Gus Sons, the son of the owner of the Sons family house, who is also named Gus Sons [3]. These claims have not been substantiated. Danielle's statement threw Tuck into a rage, and punched the victim. The first punch was so powerful it broke the victim's cheekbone and knocked him unconscious, stated Red Duke, the emergency physician who treated him. Tuck and Turner dragged the teenager outside, and for the next 5 hours stripped him naked, burned the victim with cigarettes, choked him with a gardening hose and proceeded to engrave a swastika into the victim's chest, Tuck kicked him with steel-toed boots, and furthermore violently kicked a PVC pipe up his rectum several inches while yelling racial slurs. After the sodomy ended, the perpetrators poured bleach on the victim's body to conceal the evidence of the crime. The victim stayed in the hospital for three months, requiring to undergo close to forty surgeries and contemplating a possible life of infirmity, because of the PVC pipe had perforated his bladder and caused extensive internal injuries. The night after the assault, his lungs failed and he was placed on a ventilator.
Later in December 2006, Tuck and Turner were both convicted of aggravated sexual assault. Tuck was sentenced to life in prison, and Turner was sentenced to 90 years. They both will not be eligible for parole until 2035 at the earliest. Tuck has since appealed his life sentence.
