After his three friends were sent to prison for breaking into an East Rock home and attacking a woman with a baseball bat, a fourth defendant pleaded guilty to his role in the crime.
Tyquan Brown, who’s 19, accepted a plea deal in Superior Court Wednesday.
His plea came on the heels of a sentencing hearing Friday before Judge Richard Damiani, where three co-defendants got 18 to 20 years in prison for the April 29, 2008 incident. Two of them apologized in court to Julia O’Sullivan, a house-sitter who was tied up, beaten with a baseball bat and left bleeding while the intruders escaped in her car.
Like the other three young men, Brown pleaded guilty to home invasion, which carries a minimum mandatory sentence of 10 years. He also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit first-degree assault, first-degree robbery and conspiracy to commit second-degree larceny for the car theft.
Brown is due to be sentenced on Jan. 8.