(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of the City of Aliquippa Police Department)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, PA) A man from Ambridge who was one of the three people charged in the brutal beating of Preston Coleman that occurred in the Aliquippa VFW 3577 bar on January 5th, 2025 pleaded guilty yesterday. Ronald Brown was sentenced in Beaver County yesterday morning to three to six years in prison. Brown admitted to participating in the beating and pleaded guilty to aggravated assault causing serious injury. A video obtained by WPXI shows Brown watching Brett Ours of Aliquippa attack Coleman in the bar located on Penn Avenue before Brown threw seven punches at Coleman. Ours, the main suspect of this crime, was found guilty on January 16th, 2026 to all of the charges against him except for attempted murder. Ours will be sentenced on Tuesday, March 17th. Beaver County District Attorney Nate Bible stated that Coleman and his family agreed with the sentence for Brown. Ireland Brown of Ambridge, the daughter of Brown and the bartender on duty at the time of this incident, was also charged for this crime. Her trial is set for May of 2026.