PANAMA CITY - A Panama City man was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for breaking into a Mexico Beach hotel room and battering two occupants, according to a State Attorney’s Office news release.
Ronald Deon Lee, 34, of 6620 Enzor St., was found guilty last month of burglary of an occupied dwelling with a battery. The charge stems from an incident in the early morning hours of April 15, 2011, when Lee made his way into the hotel room occupied by Scott Webb, Trent Webb and Janice Williamson, all of Eufaula, Ala. Williamson awoke to find Lee, naked, on top of her trying to rape her.
Her scream woke up Scott Webb, who fought Lee and detained him until police arrived, despite being bitten twice and having four of his toes broken.
Assistant State Attorney Rob Sale said the evidence showed Lee entered the room twice that morning. The first time he took the couple’s cellphones and car keys back to his adjoining room. Lee then returned and attempted the rape Williamson, even though the woman was sleeping in the same bed as Scott Webb and Trent Webb, then 11, was in the other bed. Prosecutors said Lee probably entered the victims’ room the first time by climbing across the balconies.