Flashlight beating video leads Lawton woman to jail

A woman found by police suffering from a broken nose and eye socket led investigators to a video of a brutal flashlight attack.

Now, the woman accused of inflicting the damage is in jail on $15,000.

Ashleigh Brooke Lasell, 33, made her initial appearance Wednesday in Comanche County District Court where she received a felony count of aggravated assault and battery, records indicate. The crime is punishable by up to five years in prison.

It was around 3:15 a.m. Oct. 13 when, Lawton Police Officer Ethan McCracken stated, a call came in about a physical disturbance in the 200 block of Southwest Park Avenue. While en route, he learned the victim was walking west on Park and was near Southwest 5th Street.

McCracken found the woman bleeding from the mouth and nose with a very large knot above her right eye and her nose was extremely swollen, the probable cause affidavit states.

The woman said she’d gone to see her “baby daddy” with her friend, Lasell. She said her and Lasell got into an argument and her friend hit her in the face with a flashlight several times. She was taken to a local hospital for treatment.

Officers found Lasell, with a flashlight in hand, and a man in the alley behind 209 SW Park. Lasell claimed she’d been defending herself because the other woman had grabbed her hair, the affidavit states. She learned, however, a witness had video of the assault.

In the video, the woman was seen walking away from Lasell, who was holding a flashlight in her right hand, who continued following the woman, McCracken stated. As Lasell got closer, the woman was seen throwing her hands up before Lasell grabbed her by the hair and took her to the ground where she mounted her and began striking her in the face with her right hand, according to the affidavit. The officer noticed that each strike from Lasell’s right hand had light from the flashlight going up and down while the woman was on the ground.

Lasell was arrested and booked into jail.

The injured woman suffered “several fractures in her nose and a broken orbital wall around her right eye,” the affidavit states.

Ordered to have no contact with the injured woman or witnesses, Lasell returns to court at 3 p.m. Feb. 27 for her preliminary hearing conference, records indicate.