The mother of a Kansas man who shot his father dead and wounded two members of law enforcement in 2019, then killed himself, now faces jail time for providing one of the guns used in the attack.
Shirley Loder, age 67 when first charged in January, pleaded no contest on Friday and was ordered to serve 60 days in jail, The Associated Press reported. The balance of her one-year sentence will consist of probation, AP said, citing Rice County Attorney Remington Dalke.
Convicted felon David Madden, 37, was not legally allowed to own a gun when he acquired that and a laundry basket full of arms, AP reported. He first shot and critically wounded an undersheriff on April 29, 2019, during an attempted firearms arrest. Then he killed his father, 65-year-old Thomas Madden, and shot a sheriff in the leg before killing himself, AP reported at the time.
He had been indicted the previous week for illegal possession of an AK-47 assault rifle, and when undersheriff Chad Murphy, 48, tried to pull him over, Madden shot him four times, including in the neck.
Madden had a woman and child in the car with him, which The Wichita Eagle said was his former girlfriend, Erin Baker, and her child. They drove to his Alden, Kansas, home to get more weapons, then went to his father’s house a couple of miles away. She drove off without alerting authorities as he started shooting his father and received a 60-day jail sentence with 18 months of probation for her role, AP said.
It’s still not clear which of the “laundry basket” full of guns belonged to Loder, The Wichita Eagle reported.
“While I requested she serve the entire jail sentence, I understood the judge’s sentence and believe it aligns with justice,” Dalke told The Wichita Eagle. “A condition of probation is no contact with the victim and their families.”
