When two men charged in the slaying of a St. Paul woman were placed in the same holding room in September, one of them beat the other up and said, “I have been waiting for this for a long time,” according to a complaint filed in Ramsey County District Court.
Richard Daniel Thomas Joles was charged with one count of third-degree assault Thursday for allegedly putting Kevin Reek in a chokehold on Sept. 1 and punching him in the face and head repeatedly.
Guards broke up the fight in the Ramsey County jail, but Reek never resisted, according to the criminal complaint.
Joles, 30, of Houston, and Reek, 47, of Pikeville, Tenn., were both charged in January with two counts of second-degree murder. Perrin Cooper Jr., 32, also is charged in the homicide.
They are accused in the homicide of Myong “Susie” Gossel, a 79-year-old East Side woman for whom Joles had done landscaping work.
Gossel’s body was found in her home last January. She had been beaten to death.
Authorities allege she was killed in the course of a robbery.
After the slaying but before their arrests, the three men had a falling-out and parted ways, according to the criminal complaint in the homicide case.