GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – A homeless man could stand trial next month for two separate attacks in Green Bay.
21-year-old Ricardo Horne is charged in Brown County with five counts over the two cases. The first case Horne faces charges of battery and disorderly conduct. The second case Horne is charged with first-degree reckless injury/use of a dangerous weapon, armed robbery and bail jumping. All counts have repeater enhancers.
According to the first criminal complaint, a woman went to the Green Bay Police Department on March 10, 2015, to file a battery complaint. Medical personnel were caring for her injuries in the lobby as an officer took her statement.
The victim claimed that her ex-boyfriend, identified as Ricardo Horne, hit her in the face multiple times. Horne, the woman said, doesn’t live with her but shows up, “whenever he wants to.”
Horne had demanded to be let into her home the day before, threatening to, “smash in the windows,” if she didn’t let him inside.
She was watching television, when Horne and she began arguing. He allegedly threatened to smack her, the victim said she would smack him back, then he began attacking her.
The victim told Horne that he, “was going to jail,” while striking her and Horne abruptly stopped and ran out the door.
The second criminal complaint details that a Green Bay police officer was called to a hospital about a man being shot with a gun on May 2, 2016. When the cop arrived, the victim was on a bed complaining about a, “gunshot wound to his left buttock.”
Once the victim was medically cleared, he was taken to the police department. The male victim said he was dropped off at the hospital by another man. Investigators learned that second man lives in the 1300 block of E. Mason Street.
According to the complaint, the second man described hosting a dice game at his residence. At this dice game, a man known as “GP” heard about it and wanted to take part. “GP” was identified through a photograph as Ricardo Horne.
During the game, Horne allegedly put up a $50 bill to shoot dice. Horne lost the money. About a half-hour later, other people at the game were asked to take the bill to Walgreens to buy cigarettes. They returned shortly after saying that, “the $50 bill was fake according to the Walgreens clerk.”
Horne claimed that he, “must’ve been tricked by someone who he sold ‘boy’ to because the $50 bill was given to him for payment.”
The gunshot victim, per the complaint, told an officer during a subsequent interview that “GP” became angry because he was losing at dice. All of a sudden, “Horne pulled a gun on him and stated ‘Gimmie all that #$%^ back or I’ll shoot you,’.”
The victim said he wasn’t going to let Horne rob him so he, “reached up and grabbed the gun.” He and Horne struggled for a bit and Horne’s arm came downward and shot the victim. The man said it hurt so much he, “immediately emptied all of his pockets of money and his cell phone.” Horne allegedly grabbed the money and phone before running out the door.
Online court records state that on April 21, 2016, Horne had a $7,500 signature bond set on the battery and disorderly conduct charges. The bond was in effect at the time of the dice game incident.
Horne had previously been convicted of disorderly conduct and resisting/obstructing in July 2012, along with a conviction for resisting/obstructing in May 2014.
On September 7, Horne returns to court for a final pre-trial hearing on the battery and disorderly conduct case. Horne’s final pre-trial hearing on the other 3 charges follow on September 26, with a jury trial scheduled for October 12.
If convicted on all five counts, Horne faces more than 80 years in prison.
