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‘Animal’ Beats 71-Year Old Woman With Wooden Club, Sheriff Simmons Says
May 15, 2021
A man Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons called an “animal” is charged with attempted murder after beating a 71-year old woman with a wooden club.
The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to the Circle K on the 2700-block of Gulf Beach Highway in reference to an unconscious woman who had been hit with a bat.
“What the surveillance video showed was shocking. You can see 30-year-old Michael Coggeshall enter into the store, take his backpack off and aimlessly walk around. A short time later, the 71-year old victim enters the building and walks up the service counter, minding her own business. The suspect grabs a wooden club from his backpack, walks up behind the victim and viciously attacks her, hitting her in the head with the club,” the ECSO said in a statement.
“I hope this is not a sign of the time,” Sheriff Chip Simmons said. “Watching this animal pace around behind the victim, contemplating his action is chilling. If you are not angered by this kind of behavior, I question your humanity. Rarely if ever in my law enforcement career I have I seen something so random and something so down right evil. I was disgusted watching the video of the event unfold. Our thoughts and prayers are with the victim. We are charging him with attempted murder because that is the most we can charge him with at this time. I hope justice finds Michael Coggeshall and judges him accordingly.”
Deputy Jerimiah Meeks and Investigator Joshua Timo worked the case. Timo was in the area of the Circle K looking for Coggeshall when he spotted him on a bicycle and tried to make an apprehension. The suspect fled and was later apprehended by Deputy Matt Watkins’ K — 9 Bady. Coggeshell was bitten by the K-9 and treated at a local hospital before being to the Escambia County Jail.
The 71-year old woman remains hospitalized.
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30 Responses to “‘Animal’ Beats 71-Year Old Woman With Wooden Club, Sheriff Simmons Says”
Time for the return of an eye for an eye. If you don’t carry, more and more people are providing reasons you should.
Please do not Insult the Animal population.. Humans are more dangerous than we like to think.
Kudos to K9 Officer Bady! (Hope you get that nasty taste out of your mouth!)
~IMHO~
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DonDon on May 15th,
2021 6:30 am
Give that K 9 a biscuit.
I live very close to this circle K. Management needs to take better control of there property. They continue to allow all the homeless and high junkies to hang out right on the side of store. I’ve been harassed multiple times over the yrs by the ppl. Begging for money or talking to them selves. You can easily tell when they are high. But none of the circle k managers will run them off. In fact they allow them to come in and out of the store. Not buying anything dirty just scary looking to be around. Police needs to be around that area and behind that store more often. Homeless junkies has seriously taken over this area.
Sheriff Simmions I agree with your statement, remember your remarks when a Deputy gets a complaint for calling a member of the public an animal.
It is a sad , sad day that an elderly lady ( like myself) can’t feel safe walking into a store to pay for gas or buy a Slurpee in our community. I pray this poor lady recovers physically from her injuries. Emotionally she won’t ever recover . I hope justice is served and that this perpetrator ‘s freedom is denied him for a long time. If he is a repeat offender maybe it is time to leave him in prison. If he has proven time and time again that he is untrustworthy , put him away and don’t let him out.
Is it possible he’s trying to go back to prison, maybe
If I had been there he would not be a problem. You never know when there is a legal concealed carry person there.
I’m not a lawyer, but Sheriff Simmons’ remark will likely be pounced upon by the defense as being “prejudicial”… . .
only a somewhat educated Escambia Native.
Anyone knows someone on the inside might need to make a phone call.
I know the victim and the perpetrator. Mary is a kind and fragile older lady. I understand that Michael has lived most of his life in prison. Mikey Mike has a polite persona masking obvious criminal psychopathy. The whole neighborhood was after him and I believe his cousin who was good friends with the victim helped in the apprehension. I was personally shocked as I frequent he circle k and have had conversations with him. Goes to show that just because someone is polite and has good manners that there may be something evil lurking underneath. There are some people in the neighborhood claiming that he was also setting fires in peoples houses. I think they are planning on seeing him get additional charges. My friend has been calling the hospital daily to check on Mary’s condition. Yesterday she was recovering.
She was an innocent victim and there is no way anyone could have seen this coming. Let’s hope she recovers, she was frail to begin with. My prayers are and have been with her since I first leaned of this tragedy.
Not a politically correct statement: why are we bothering with trash like this and feed and house them for the next 50 years? You cannot rehabilitate devils like him.
Sheriff Simmons, this guy is not an animal he is a person with no conscious & a source of evil. He might have acted like an animal surrounding his prey but he knew what he was doing and not mentally ill.
I hope the inmates find out what he has done. I am also pretty sure her family is waiting for him to get a bond so they can bond him out and take him on a one way trip. God Bless the woman and her family and God show no mercy on the p.o.s. soul!
Need to give him a low bond and let the public know when they release him. We are sick and tired of low life scum taking over our towns. He needs to be beat like he has done to this poor defenseless lady. I would like to take his bat and stick it up his bleep bleep and make him a human lollipop. Then our justice system can put his bleep back in jail to rot.
Is this the crazy druggie who is always standing out there along that exact stretch of Gulf Beach Hwy talking to himself and dancing around?
They should test the dog for rabbies he may have gotten from this ‘Animal’. Good boy, good boy!!!
There is no one that can condone this! If anyone tries to say that he is a good guy and was having a bad day, YOU need to do a self check!
I can’t say on here what I want to do to this low life poor excuse of a man..I hope he gets what he deserves from his cell mates..
@Matchbox and @mad hatter – I agree. What a disgusting, low life, excuse of a human.
They better get that dog a rabies shot after biting that worthless pos so he doesn’t catch anything. Good pup!!!
Wondering if he needs help getting bonded out.I will be glad to pick up and give him a ride to the woods
Hope he has a horrible time in jail. Even felons love their grandmother. Hopefully he gets a fistful of reminders about that.
Time to take out the trash.
Give that K 9 a biscuit
Let me know when this punk gets released he will get some long arm justice. You dont mess with kids or the elderly
Pure trash. Our weak DA will take a plea bargain.
He should be beat to death with the same bat…how disgusting
Absolutely sickening. Hopefully the courts wont flop on their face again and let this guy go with just probation like they always do when they start feeling bad for criminals.
“Oh hes a good boy”