Chattooga County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a Cloudland residence after a report of a violent domestic incident in progress.  As deputies were en-route, they were told that the suspects had left the residence in a grey Toyota passenger car.

When deputies arrived at the residence on Atlanta Avenue, the spoke with the victim who said that his wife’s uncle and aunt had forced their way into the residence and assaulted him and his wife while the couple’s juvenile children were upstairs.

The victim said that Brad and Candy Bass showed up at the Atlanta Avenue residence intoxicated and came in the home without permission.  The victim said that the Bass couple were yelling and screaming at his wife and Candy Bass hit the victim’s wife in the head with her fists.  As the victim attempted to assist his wife, Brad Bass is accused of pulling a .22 revolver and telling the victim and his wife that he “was going to kill them” while hitting the victim in the head with the pistol.

The victim and his wife said that they had no idea why Brand and Candy Bass had assaulted them at this point.  The victims said that Candy Bass said during the assault that the couple had it “coming to them for twenty years.”

Forty-nine-year-old Robert “Brad” Bradford Bass and forty-year-old Candace “Candy” Bass of a Highway 157 Cloudland address, were both arrested in connection with the incident.  The couple was charged with burglary for breaking into the residence and were also charged with criminal trespass and simple battery.  Also, the couple were charged with cruelty to children because the assault took place in the presence of juveniles.