WINONA, Minn. — A Winona woman, who’s an amputee and confined mostly to a wheelchair, told police that her boyfriend beat her with a rolling pin. This, she said, was during an argument at their East Side house. Police arrested Ronald Ray Vickery, age 79, but only, they said, after he resisted. Police had received a 911 call from 550 Hamilton Street about 5 a.m. Vickery wouldn’t open up and shouted “fuck you” through the door and threatened to shoot. The woman meanwhile made her way out a back door. Police went around back, entered, and forced Vickery to floor. The woman, age 58, said that during the beating Vickery tried to stop her call to 911 but she managed to anyway. Poilce said tha no bruises showed right away the woman complained of pain and said she was terrified.
