Brothers Avoid Jail Time in South Windsor Assault

Two brothers from Meriden will avoid jail time after they received suspended sentences Monday for their part in the brutal 2013 assault of two men at a South Windsor auto repair shop.

The Hartford Courant reports Luis Miguel Ruiz and Francisco Gabriel Ruiz were considered to be minor players in the assault and provided key information to police that ultimately led to the convictions of Nathaniel Chambers and Jose Luis Ramos, who carried out the assaults.

Chambers, 29, also of Meriden, faces up to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty earlier in the month to two counts of first-degree assault and one count of first-degree assault. He will be sentenced on Aug. 24.

Ramos is currently serving a 15-year sentence.

Chambers was accused of going to Forced Induction Motorsports, with the three other men, and assaulting owner Robert Lareau, 28 (at the time), and employee Ryan Kelleher, 21, on Jan. 8, 2013.

Chambers went to the shop, located at 51 Edwin Road in South Windsor, because of an ongoing dispute with Lareau and claimed that he paid Lareau for work on a car that was never done, according to the Courant.

Both Lareau and Kelleher were struck with an exhaust pipe and the attacks resulted in “skull fractures, bleeding of the brain and other serious injuries” to both victims, according to previous Patch reports.

South Windsor police obtained an arrest warrant for Chambers but he remained at large until he was arrested Jan. 15, 2013 after checking himself into the Veterans Hospital in West Haven, where he sought treatment for the flu.