The following quote is from a Column One article in the Los Angeles Times entitled "Skateboard Pros: Life on the Edge," dated Sunday, March 6, 1994:
"[Josh] Swindell had driven up from Carlsbad [to Asuza] with Danny Way, another top star, to attend a rap party at a rented bar. A Scrawny man named Keith Ogden crashed the event, according to court records. Witnesses would later testify at a preliminary hearing that Ogden, 31, approached Way outside the bar and flashed some bills in an apparent bid to buy sexual favors.
"When Ogden persisted, according to Way's testimony, Way knocked him out with one punch--after which a club bouncer did the same to Way.
"Both men were dragged inside. Later in the night, several attempts were made to send Ogden away; the last involved Swindell and a 17-year-old skateboarding friend. They were seen dragging and kicking Ogden across the street, one witness testified at the preliminary hearing late last year.
"Ogden's body was found in the bushes a short while later. He was dead before paramedics could save him. 'His face was beaten beyond recognition,' said Deputy Dist. Atty. Patricia Ryan.
"Although non one reported seeing the attack, police arrested Swindell and his friend on murder charges. Each has pleaded not guilty, contending that Ogden--who had sneaked out of a hospital only days earlier--was dying from a blow to the head he had received before his encounter with them."
The Swindell/Way/Ogden incident occurred in July of 1993.
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