The homeless man who police say was stabbed and beaten with a stick near 27th Way and Baseline Road in Boulder last week has died from his injuries — and the suspect in that attack now faces a murder charge.
Roland “Donnie” Dequina, 43, a Boulder-area panhandler and a former fixture of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district, died on Saturday, Boulder police spokeswoman Shannon Cordingly confirmed Tuesday morning.
James Craig Dobson, the 56-year-old suspect in the attack of both Dequina and another man, Jeffrey Cross, 50, was arrested last week on suspicion of attempted murder and assault.
But Catherine Olguin, spokeswoman for the Boulder County District Attorney’s Office, said Tuesday that Dobson now will be charged with second-degree murder following Dequina’s death. Prosecutors also will file second- and third-degree assault charges.
Dobson made his first appearance in court on July 26, but with Dequina still hospitalized at the time with grave injuries, prosecutors sought a longer delay between that appearance and the filing of charges.
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