Former athletes plead guilty
February 6, 2007
Two former Sacramento State football players pled guilty to felony counts at the Amador County Courthouse on Thursday morning.
Brendon “Bo” DeLapp, 19, pled guilty to felony charges of assault with a deadly weapon and was assigned a five-year maximum sentence in state prison. Westy Guill, 18, pled guilty to four felony vandalism counts and aiding and abetting DeLapp and was assigned four years and eight months as a maximum sentence.
The Nov. 9 incident on Highway 16, in which DeLapp threw rocks at oncoming cars while Guill drove, left one man, Parish Compton, with serious injuries to his head and face.
Both defendants were ordered to report to the probation department and are due back in court April 14 for a sentencing hearing. Restitution (money to be paid to the victim) will be decided at the hearing.
The remainder of the 18 felony counts and eight misdemeanors were dismissed by request of the District Attorney Todd Riebe. An additional four counts of felony vandalism (over $400 worth of damage) and four more counts of misdemeanor vandalism (under $400 worth of damage) were added to the charges at a hearing on Jan. 5.
DeLapp was a freshman offensive lineman in the fall, but voluntarily withdrew from the football program in September for personal reasons, according to head coach Steve Mooshagian. DeLapp returned home to Fresno earlier this season to play on a junior college team.
Guill, also a freshman, was taking a medical redshirt this season; he was suspended from the team in late October for missing classes and being late to a variety of team functions.
“He has dizzy spells from all the trauma, but his moods are better,” Compton’s mother said at the Jan. 5 hearing. “I’m livid. Those boys have no remorse.”
Compton’s mother said her son was on his way to work at the Jackson Rancheria Casino from his home in Carmichael when his car was struck by a rock admittedly thrown by DeLapp.
Compton’s boss, the surveillance manager at the casino, also declined to give his name but was present at both hearings along with other Jackson Rancheria employees.
Elizabeth Wilson can be reached at [email protected]