A Hooters waitress {accused} of cheering on the brutal homicide of a 23-year-old who was beat to loss of life with a baseball bat requested a choose to decrease her bond so she might pay for it with funds from her OnlyFans account.
Ashley Esselborn, 21, requested a Texas choose to decrease her bail from $100,000 to $50,000, which she mentioned she might in all probability cowl with the cash in her risqué account.
Esselborn advised the courtroom she had no less than $8,000 within the account from her nude photographs alone, however that every one her funds had been locked and that she has been reaching out to OnlyFans company to entry them.
The waitress allegedly cheered whereas Payton Collier, 27, Ronnie Lang, 18, and William Bell, 28, beat Zachary Wooden with their fists, ft, and a bat in his dwelling in Wichita Falls. All 4 had been indicted for first-degree felony homicide.
Ashley Esselborn, OnlyFans mannequin, poses in a pink bikini within the snow in a 2021 photograph
Ashley Esselborn (proper) pictured in her Hooters uniform in a photograph from March, 2020
Esselborn seems in a Texas courtroom the place a choose denied her a decrease bail
Esselborn is {accused} of being current throughout the homicide of Zachary Wooden final Could, which cops described as ‘a large bloodletting occasion.’ She was charged with first-degree homicide.
The group allegedly attacked Wooden as a result of they thought he had stolen medication and cash from them whereas they had been staying at his home.
Collier advised police that along with cheering on the beating, Esselborn yelled at Wooden whereas he was being pummeled and demanded to know the place the stolen objects had been.
Her bail had beforehand been dropped from $1million within the spring, and the choose denied the most recent discount request.
Zachary Wooden, 23, was beat to loss of life was a baseball bat final Could as a result of the assailants thought he stole medication and cash from them
Payton Collier, 27 (left) and Ronnie Lang, 18. Collier stays behind bars, and Collier is serving a 50-year sentence after confessing to Wooden’s homicide in September
William Bell, 28, and Ashley Esselborn, 21. Bell is at present out on $200,000 bond
It stays unclear whether or not Esselborn took half within the beating, or whether or not she merely encourage the the assault.
She admitted to police that she was current for the assault and helped discard of bloody objects after, and Collier corroborated that story and mentioned she remained on the sidelines.
Nonetheless, investigators mentioned a witness advised them that she overheard Esselborn bragging on the telephone that she had not been arrested, and that she had partaken within the assault on Wooden.
Lang plead responsible to the homicide in September and is serving a 50 12 months sentence. Bell was launched on $200,000 bond, and Lang stays behind bars on $500,000 bond. Every remaining defendant has been supplied plea offers.
