PANAMA CITY BEACH -- Two homeless men were arrested on suspicion of beating a third homeless fellow who refused to chip in money for a beer run, according to the Bay County Sheriff’s Office.
Jacob Gosselin and Charles Strickland are charged with aggravated battery and principal to aggravated battery, respectively, after a man told investigators they jumped him and knocked his teeth out because he refused to cough up money for beer. The two suspects and the victim had been staying in a transient camp in a wooded area off Front Beach Road.
The victim, who is not identified in a BCSO news release, identified the suspects and reluctantly went to the hospital to be treated for a busted up face.