UPDATE: Teen Gets 15 years For Beating 94-year-old WWII Vet

UPDATE: A teenager who nearly beat an elderly man to death during a robbery was sentenced to 15 years in prison this morning in Marietta.

ORIGINAL STORY:

A jury has found a 16-year-old guilty of beating and robbing a 94-year-old World War II veteran in September, according to the Marietta Daily Journal.

James Wendell Glover Jr., who was 15 at the time of the attack, was charged as an adult and convicted of aggravated assault and robbery of a person over the age of 65 in the beating of Paul Smallwood, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The defendant faces up to 40 years in prison when he is sentenced Monday.

The victim was returning from a doctor's appointment Sept. 24 when he encountered an 11-year-old boy who offered to introduce the man to someone who could fix his car.

When Smallwood declined, the boy followed him into his Crescent Square apartment on Austell Road. When Smallwood told the child to leave, Glover, then 15, emerged and threw a 10-inch rock at the man, according to the AJC.

Smallwood fell onto his back, and the teen continued to beat him with the rock, according to reports. The youths got away with a wallet containing $27 and a cellphone.

The victim sustained a broken hip, broken collarbone and serious head injuries, Cobb County Assistant District Attorney Angela Reedy told the AJC.

Smallwood previously had lived independently but is now in an assisted-living facility.

The jury took nearly two full days of deliberation to return the guilty verdicts against Glover, who was found not guilty of four other charges: burglary, another charge of aggravated assault, aggravated battery and armed robbery.

The younger defendant in the case pleaded guilty, testified against Glover and received two years’ supervised release.