{"id":2027256,"date":"2023-09-10T13:12:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T17:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/driver-gets-appallingly-lenient-sentence-for-killing-teen-in-case-that-drew-trumps-interest\/"},"modified":"2023-09-10T13:13:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T17:13:57","slug":"driver-gets-appallingly-lenient-sentence-for-killing-teen-in-case-that-drew-trumps-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/driver-gets-appallingly-lenient-sentence-for-killing-teen-in-case-that-drew-trumps-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver receives shockingly light sentence for killing teenager in case that caught Trump&#8217;s attention."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdriver-gets-appallingly-lenient-sentence-for-killing-teen-in-case-that-drew-trumps-interest%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2027256&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A\u200c Tragic Incident and its Political Fallout<\/h2>\n<p>In a case that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nfl-coach-comes-out-as-gay-a-first-in-major-us-pro-sports\/\" title=\"NFL coach publicly reveals he is gay, a historic first in major American pro sports.\">captured\u2064 national attention<\/a>\u2063 and sparked political \u200dcontroversy,\u2063 a North Dakota man has been sentenced to five \u2062years in prison\u2063 for a fatal incident\u200b that occurred last fall.<\/p>\n<p>The incident involved Shannon Brandt, \u2063who struck and killed 18-year-old\u200d Cayler Ellingson\u200d in McHenry,\u200c North Dakota, according to\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/north-dakota-hit-run-argument-death-sentence-2a81fc37edab4ed083b3eab26dc199f6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Brandt pleaded guilty to the killing in May, initially claiming that Ellingson, a self-proclaimed\u2064 &#8220;Republican extremist,&#8221; had been threatening him. According\u200b to\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/shannon-brandt-sentenced-prison-death-north-dakota-teen-cayler-ellingson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a>, Brandt\u2062 told the police during his 911 \u2064call that\u200c Ellingson &#8220;wouldn&#8217;t \u200clet me leave.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, \u200ba <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/driver-gets-appallingly-lenient-sentence-for-killing-teen-in-case-that-drew-trumps-interest\/\" title=\"Driver receives shockingly light sentence for killing teenager in case that caught Trump's attention.\">subsequent investigation revealed<\/a>\u200d that\u200d there was \u2064no political motive behind the \u2062incident, as\u2062 Brandt had alleged. North Dakota Highway Patrol Capt. Bryan Niewind stated, &#8220;There has \u2063been no corroboration that \u2063this was \u2062even politically motivated at\u200d all,&#8221; according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/biden-homicide-bismarck-north-dakota-accidents-fe2f02bfbee3c00b35c23d2a80884960\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The case gained further attention when former President Donald Trump\u2064 mentioned it at a rally, accusing the media of \u200bignoring it due to political \u2063bias, as \u2063reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-blasts-media-outlets-ignoring-cayler-ellingson-killing-north-dakota\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Brandt&#8217;s initial charge of criminal \u200cvehicular\u200d manslaughter was later\u200d reduced to manslaughter\u2063 at the time of his plea. The North Dakota State Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office ruled the death as an accident, stating that Brandt was attempting to end the confrontation \u200bwith Ellingson \u200cwhen the\u200c tragic \u200bincident occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Brandt&#8217;s sentence of five years in prison, with credit for time served, will\u200b result in approximately four years behind bars. He will also \u2064face three years of\u200d supervised probation upon his release.<\/p>\n<p>During the court proceedings, Foster County \u2064Judge\u2063 Bradley\u2062 Cruff acknowledged Brandt&#8217;s autism diagnosis and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/actor-barry-keoghan-of-eternals-the-batman-arrested-in-dublin-for-public-intoxication\/\" title=\"Actor Barry Keoghan of 'Eternals,' 'The Batman' Arrested in Dublin for Public Intoxication\">intoxicated state<\/a> as contributing factors to the accident. However, he emphasized that Brandt&#8217;s actions\u2063 were reckless and resulted \u2064in the loss of a young life.<\/p>\n<p>Cayler Ellingson&#8217;s mother, Sheri Ellingson, sought the maximum sentence\u200d of 10 \u200byears for her son&#8217;s death, expressing\u200b the profound impact it had on their family. In court,\u2062 Brandt offered an apology, expressing remorse for his role in the tragedy and \u2062the pain it caused to both\u200c families and the community.<\/p>\n<p>For more\u2062 details on\u200d this case, read the full\u2062 article on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/driver-gets-appallingly-lenient-sentence-killing-teen-case-drew-trumps-interest\/\">The\u200d Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A North Dakota man was sentenced to 5 years in prison for a politically significant incident. Shannon Brandt fatally struck 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson in McHenry, North Dakota in September 2022. Brandt admitted guilt in May and initially claimed Ellingson&#8217;s death was accidental, as reported by The Associated Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":2027257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2027256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2027256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2027257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2027256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2027256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2027256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}