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

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, PA) An Aliquippa man convicted of beating another man at the Aliquippa VFW 3577 bar last year received his sentence today of 16-32 total years in prison. Judge Kim Tesla gave the sentence to forty-year-old Brett Leonidas Ours, who was accused of assaulting Preston Coleman at the bar located on Penn Avenue on January 5th, 2025. Ours attacked Coleman unprovokingly for around 30 minutes. Investigators stated that surveillance video captured Ours punching Coleman in the face, slamming a barstool over his head, and standing on his throat. Aliquippa Police confirm that Coleman was nearly unconscious and defenseless when emergency crews responded to the incident.A jury found Ours guilty of aggravated assault, strangulation, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, possession of instruments of a crime and three counts of simple assault on January 16th, 2026, but he was found not guilty of a charge of attempted murder that day. Ours was sentenced to 10-20 years for aggravated assault, 5-10 years for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and 1-2 years for strangulation. He was also given a sentence of 4 months to 2 years for punching his then-girlfriend in the face during the beating. Ours took responsibility for the attack but he claimed that he was not trying to kill Coleman. Police took Ours into custody on February 6th, 2025 after police surrounded his West Aliquippa home.