Time served sentence in baseball bat attack
A Butler man was paroled on time served in Butler County Court on Thursday, after being sentenced to assault with a baseball bat last summer.
Marc A. Pippens Jr., 28, was sentenced to time served to one year in jail by Judge William Shaffer, and was immediately paroled.
Pippins also faces a probation violation case in Allegheny County, and will be returned there to face that case.
He was also ordered to pay court costs.
The misdemeanor charge to which he pleaded was later added, and the remaining charge was dismissed as part of the plea.
The charges were filed by the Butler police after a report that Pippens attacked his ex-girlfriend's father with a baseball bat, causing the 59-year-old Richard Kroll to be hospitalized with a head injury.
Police said Pippens hit Kroll, of Connoquenessing Township, with a ball bat after Kroll had gone to his daughter's home to remove Pippens, who apparently had been living there, too.
The two eventually got into a scuffle, with Kroll being hit in the face several times, before Pippens grabbed the bat that Kroll had brought with him and hit Kroll on the left side of the head “a couple times,” documents said.
