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Young Kwak photo The parking lot of Ichabod s East, a bar in Spokane Valley, where Daniel Jarman was knocked down and beaten. M ore than a year after Army veteran Daniel Jarman was beaten and left to die outside of a Spokane Valley bar, his killer still has not been charged with any crime. Spokane County prosecutor Larry Haskell told the Inlander last month that the evidence supported a likely mutual combat or self-defense scenario, adding that the law is very generous to one who claims self-defense. He added that prosecutors must assess possible credibility issues with the case. A decline decision will not foreclose a future prosecution should additional evidence come to light, Haskell says. ....
The banging thunders through Joe Riley s house. Boom, boom, boom. Riley has no clue who it could be. His wife and kids are relaxing in the other room as he opens the front door. Two detectives are outside. What s going on? Riley asks. The Spokane County sheriff s detectives tell him why they re there. It s Jan. 2, 2020, four days after a brutal assault left a man unconscious in a pool of blood outside Ichabod s East, a bar in Spokane Valley. Daniel Jarman, 40, would die from the beating, and the attacker fled into the night before police arrived. Days later, two women would tell detectives they figured out who was responsible for the vicious attack: Joe Riley, a guy who owns a tattoo shop at the Valley mall. ....