Posted on 09/10/2023 11:09:23 AM PDT by lowbridge
Shannon Brandt was sentenced to 5 years in state prison on Friday for fatally running over 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson following a street dance.
Brandt, 42, ran over Ellingson with his 2003 Ford Explorer on Sept. 18, 2022, in McHenry, North Dakota after an argument, prosecutors said. An arrest affidavit filed by a North Dakota State Patrol officer states that Brandt told a 911 operator that Ellingson "wouldn't let me leave." According to the affidavit, Brandt also told the 911 operator that Ellingson was calling other people to "get him."
"He got on my vehicle and I couldn't get him away from me," Brandt said of Ellingson. "He was threatening me. He was saying something about some Republican extremist group, saying, ‘I thought he was part of us.’"
Ellingson was taken to a local hospital with severe injuries and later died. Brandt initially left the scene of the incident but returned and called 911.
An affidavit filed by a North Dakota State Patrol officer stated that Brandt called Ellingson a "Republican extremist," though a review of the 911 call transcript shows that wasn't the case. North Dakota Highway Patrol Capt. Bryan Niewind previously told Fox News Digital earlier that there was "no evidence" suggesting that the teenager was part of a "Republican extremist group" or that the incident was politically driven.
Brandt was initially charged with criminal vehicular manslaughter, but Forster County State's Attorney Kara Brinster later upgraded those charges to murder.
On May 2, the charges were reduced to manslaughter and Brandt pleaded guilty on May 18.
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Brandt was sentenced to five years in state prison but will get credit time served for his house arrest, which reduces his jail time by almost a year. Once he's released from prison, he will undergo three years of supervised probation.
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Five years for murder; 22 years for thinking about walking into the Capitol. 80 year old grandmothers who waked into the building are identified after an intense FBI review; yet there are photos of the person who placed the phony “bombs” that day at the RNC and DNC, the guy on the scaffold who urged the storming of the Capitol, and others pushing the tearing down of the fences and NOT ONE has been identified by the FBI.
This is supposed to send Republicans a message.
Brandt should be hanging in the public square, not rotting in a jail cell!
Crime punishment only goes one way..Dems will rue the day they did this....You never stay in power...Annnd as much as they are pissing off their own voters, that day might come in 2024....
And in case anyone’s wondering, North Dakota overturned its death penalty in 1973.
The victim was a Republican so his life is forfeit. Like a Jew in Nazi Germany. Or a kulak in Soviet Russia.
This leftist democrat murdered a boy. democrats are the enemy, folks. We are in CWII.
30% serve time, records not accessible to anyone.
Our justice system appears to be done. It’s so politicized that you can almost predict the outcomes.
More like “Just Us” System.
RE: Five years for murder; 22 years for thinking about walking into the Capitol.
Very good point.
Brothers,, this is a veiled warning to us.
Consider the following crimes are 5 to 20 year sentences and none of them involved murder, much less for a hate crime.
First-degree burglary with a deadly weapon.
First-degree robbery with a deadly weapon.
Possessing or importing child pornography.
Computer crimes that participate in terrorism.
Brandt was sentenced to five years in state prison but will get credit time served for his house arrest, which reduces his jail time by almost a year. Once he’s released from prison, he will undergo three years of supervised probation.
not bad for murder
will he also get a time served gift bag with an amazon gift card and other goodies upon leaving
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