GREAT FALLS — A Cascade County courtroom saw movement in a violent assault case that’s been pending for more than a year.

Shaun Deberry, one of three people charged in the 2024 attack that left a Great Falls man with life-changing brain injuries, appeared for a change of plea hearing.

Watch the video here: Assault suspect pleads guilty in Great Falls

Deberry, who was 19 years old at the time of the assault, had been charged with accountability for attempted deliberate homicide for his role in the September 2024 assault on Jake Kraus .

On Wednesday, he pleaded guilty to accountability to robbery as part of a plea agreement.

The assault left Kraus with a traumatic brain injury, including damage to his frontal lobe that impacts his behavior, memory, and emotions. His wife, Christine

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