HUTCHINSON – The second of two inmates suspected of beating another Reno County Correctional Facility inmate so severely that he was taken to a Wichita hospital made a court appearance Monday for the reading of formal charges.

Now, both William and Antoine Alexander are charged by the state with a single count of aggravated battery. The minimum sentence on the charge is three years and two months in prison. The maximum is 14-years and four months in prison.

The two are accused of beating Darrell Beachy, 30, on September 26, in one of the pods at the new Reno County jail.

The cases will move to a waiver-status docket on Oct. 28, and both are jailed in this case with bonds of $7,500.