Nick Reedy confers with his lawyer Sal Intagliata during sentencing hearing.

by Tracy McCue, Sumner Newscow — Nick Reedy, 33, of Caldwell, one of two accomplices in the April 22, 2015 assault in south rural Sumner County has been sentenced to 32 months in state prison without probation.

Sumner County District Judge Scott McQuin handed down the sentence this afternoon with a blistering reprimand of Reedy’s behavior that night. The sentence came during a 90 minute sentencing hearing at the Sumner County District Court in Wellington.

Reedy, dressed today in a black suit coat, black tie and black striped shirt, is expected to start serving his 32-month sentence in state prison immediately. He can be released 4.8 months early – or 15 percent of the sentence – for good behavior. Reedy has also been ordered to pay back $8,127 in restitution for medical expenses, not including dental expenses which were not available for the hearing.

Reedy and his counterpart, Sylvester Provencio, 22, of Caldwell have been found guilty in court for the assault of Gregory Schneider, 53, and Bryan Nispel 55, of Caldwell during what started as a good Samaritan act that turned into a melee and severely injury Schneider.

“The only reason you and Provencio stopped kicking (Schneider) is because Nispel tried to stop you by attempting to run you over with a truck,” McQuin said. “Had he not actively done so, this would have been a homicide instead of an aggravated battery offense.”

Reedy had earlier pled guilty to reckless aggravated assault and criminal deprivation of a motor vehicle foregoing a jury trial. Provencio proceeded with a trial and was convicted of similar crimes one week later by a 12-person Sumner County jury.

Provencio has yet to be sentenced. Currently, Provencio’s attorney is asking for a hearing to interview jurors. A hearing on the matter is set for Aug. 4 at 1:30 p.m.

In the Reedy sentencing today, Reedy’s lawyer Sal Intagliata of Wichita had asked the judge to grant Reedy probation so that he could financially provide for his family especially his 9-year-old daughter, who lived in Oklahoma.

“That night was an aberration of Nick’s true character,” Intagliata said. “Judge you have letter that state Nick is a great father, a hard worker, generous of his time and a gentleman. Those letters you have reflect his true character not the one that was there that night.”

But McQuin was having none of it, even stopping Intagliata in mid-testimony when he stated that Reedy had not drank alcohol since that night. In a preliminary hearing in which Provencio is facing charges of felony rape in a separate incident, McQuin stated that sworn testimony had Reedy drinking at a party that New Years night.

In perhaps the most emotional moment of the evening, Greg and Shawna Schneider both addressed Reedy as victims of the crime. Greg’s testimony was short but impactful.

“All you had to do is say was you have help coming and nothing would have happened,” Schneider said. “I hope you find peace and God later on, and get this all behind you. I wish you well.”

Shawna, the wife of Greg, had a longer speech delving in the history of the relationship between the Reedy and Schneider family, and the long recovery process for Greg.

“Nick, I knew you since you were a teenager,” she said. “And I thought you would have known that Greg would always stopped to help you no matter what.”

She described the horror of the evening, how Greg had spent four days in the Sumner Hospital in Caldwell and how when coming home he could not lift his feet and could only shuffle. She described the months of physical therapy Greg had endured, and the number of medical specialists he has visited over the past 16 months.

“Now all he does is work and sleep. He comes home from work so exhausted that he falls asleep almost immediately. During the weekends he is sleeping 18 hours a day,” she said. “He used to be an avid golfer, but now when he swings a club it just makes him dizzy.”

Shawna spoke of the trauma of her 14-year-old daughter has over the incident and how she no longer wants to go to town in fear she might run into people like Reedy and Provencio.

“I wished this never happened,” Shawna concluded.

Then Reedy was asked to speak, he stared straight ahead and said.

“I would like to apologize for what happened. I do wish it never happened. I wish we can put this behind and move on. I wish everything would be the same as it was before this night in April, 2015. I truly am sorry. I want everyone to know that.”

McQuin had an opportunity to drastically reduce the sentence with probation that he said only the court can initiate. He chose not to do so.

He stated:

“There were two participants in this crime. But it looks to me you played the major role. You were 32 years of age. The people you were drinking with were much younger… You continued to injure Mr. Schneider when he was on the ground. What strikes me is the brutality of this offense.”

McQuin went on to say.

“I know you have great family support. Your family thinks you are wonderful and can do no wrong. But there is a fine line from being supportive and enabling destructive behavior.”

He then stopped and said, “I better just leave it right there.”

Then McQuinn questioned why Reedy was hanging around underaged drinkers in the first place.

Throughout the sentencing proceeding, there was question of how much of the evidence from the Provencio trial was relevant in this case. McQuin determined that all the evidence was relevant here.

Shawna was asked afterwards if she was happy that Reedy received the full 32-month sentence, she responded:

“There is no happiness in this situation. It is a sad day. I’m sad it ever happened.”

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