Vancouver man sentenced for Minnesota assault

A former standout athlete at Vancouver’s Skyview High School has been sentenced to a year in jail for assaulting a man with a baseball bat in a Minnesota church parking lot last fall.

Jabari Javon Marshall, 20, pleaded guilty to second-degree assault and was sentenced on July 16, according to the Chanhanssen Villager newspaper.

Carver County, Minn. sheriff’s deputies determined that a girl arranged to have Marshall attack her ex-boyfriend, the paper reports.

Marshall met the girl while working as a caddy at a golf tournament in Arizona and the two kept in contact, according to the paper. He became jealous when he learned of her former relationship with an 18-year-old Chanhassen, Minn. man. Marshall said that the man “needed to be taken care of.”

In October, Marshall flew from Arizona to Minnesota, meeting the 18-year-old victim and the girl at a church parking lot at around 5 a.m., according to the Chanhanssen Villager.

Marshall, reportedly dressed in black clothing, struck the victim several times with a souvenir baseball bat before fleeing on foot, according to the paper.

The paper reports that in addition to the jail sentence, Marshall will be on supervised probation for 10 years with the possibility of a prison sentence if terms of probation are violated.

Marshall was an all-star football player and track athlete at Skyview before signing a National Letter of Intent to play football at Northern Arizona University.