WINONA, Minn. — A Winona man was back in jail on a new complaint of beating his disabled girlfriend, this time as she was in bed eating toast and eggs he had made for her. Arrested and booked again for domestic assault was Ronald Ray Vickery, age 68. The woman, who is 58 and can’t get around without a wheelchair, told officers that Vickery struck her with a glass jar. She showed officers a large lump on her head. The wound was painful, she said. In the first incident, on Monday, she said Vickery hit her with a rolling pin. This time, she told officers, this is what happened:
> As she was eating in bed, the lights went out. This was about 2:20 a.m. Vickery entered the dark room and muttered: “Nobody’s recording, right?” Vickery then stuck her head with the glass jar.
> Vickery flipped on the lights on and acted surprised, as if he didn’t know what happened
> She told him to get out. He did.
> She yelled for her brother, who lives in the house, to bring her phone. She called police.
Police found Vickery out back in the alley in the 550 block of Hamilton Street. They said he refused to answer questions. He was arrested and booked on an identical domestic assault charge as three days earlier. Usually a second offense means an elevated level of criminality, but there has been no conviction on the first case. The first case hasn’t been adjudicated yet.