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December 8, 2014
Joe Rudd says he couldn’t sleep Wednesday night in anticipation of confronting the face that has haunted him. He was called as a witness in the trial of two Columbus teens.
“I see that face quite a bit. You see things that just burn into your mind,” he says.
Rudd’s nightmare began at 4:50 in the morning at a truck stop in Madison County last summer. Rudd says he was walking to his car when he felt a tap, turned around, and was shot in the face by a gunman demanding his car keys.
“It felt like if I just handed him my keys and wallet he would finish me off.”
Rudd told the jury he threw his keys and ran for his life towards the truck stop. He says to this day he can vividly remember the handles on the doors.
“And that’s all I seen – tunnel vision – reaching for those things, and the whole time waiting for the bullet to get shot in the back.”
A few hours later police in Dayton caught up with 17-year-old Devonere Simmonds and 18-year-old Nathanial Brunner sleeping in Rudd’s stolen car.
Prosecutors say the teens are responsible for a string of violent crimes, including the murder of Columbus carryout clerk, Imran Ashgar, just days before the carjacking and shooting that put Joe Rudd in the hospital for four months.
Rudd told the jury doctors used a rib bone to rebuild his jaw which was wired shut for so long that he lost 40 pounds. Rudd says his hearing is permanently damaged, and he faces years of oral surgeries to repair his teeth and suffers panic attacks.
It’s remarkable he says he has no bitter feelings.
“It’s very weird, I don’t hate those kids I don’t hate anyone that was involved. I don’t have hatred in me.”
Both Simmonds and Brunner face murder charges for the death of Ashgar. They have also been tied to several other shootings around the same time.
If convicted, both men face the possibility of life behind bars without the chance of parole.
