A man has been sentenced to five years in prison for the July 2013 beating of another man in Flathead County.

Timothy Shawn McCarroll was sentenced Sept. 18 in Flathead County District Court on a felony aggravated assault charge. He was found in violation of his probation in the incident and sentenced on the aggravated assault and revocation at the same time, receiving a 10-year suspended sentence to the Montana State Prison to run consecutive to the five-year sentence he received on the revocation.

 McCarroll also was ordered to pay restitution of $35,863.68 with a codefendant, Larry Espinoza. However, it is ordered that restitution will be paid jointly and “severally” between the two defendants, meaning that if one does not pay, the burden will rest on the other defendant to pay the full restitution, according to McCarroll’s attorney, Lane Bennett.

McCarroll and Espinoza were both charged with felony aggravated assault in the July 20, 2013, beating of Shawn Salisbury.

According to court documents, McCarroll, Espinoza, Salisbury and his wife, Gitana Salisbury, were all at Del’s Bar in Somers on the night of July 20. McCarroll and Espinoza gave the couple a ride home, but on the way, the two men stopped on Bierney Creek Road and pulled Shawn Salisbury out of the car and began hitting and kicking him, causing him to lose consciousness. Gitana Salisbury said she had to lay on top of her husband to get the men to stop.

The men later admitted to hitting Salisbury, saying they did so because they believed that Salisbury had been in a physical fight with his wife.

Bennett said McCarroll told him that the Salisburys were having an issue and he intervened, and Shawn Salisbury hit him. Bennett also said the group were all friends prior to the incident.

Gitana Salisbury denied that a fight had occurred between her and her husband.

Shawn Salisbury sustained a broken nose and jaw and had to undergo surgery to insert a permanent metal plate in his chin, followed by having his jaw wired shut.