MCHENRY, N.D. (AP) — A driver charged with fatally striking a teenager in North Dakota allegedly told investigators he purposely hit the teen with his SUV after they had a political argument, according to court documents.
Cayler Ellingson, 18, was struck and killed following a street dance in McHenry early Sunday. The driver accused of striking Ellingson in an alley, Shannon Brandt, 41, is charged in Foster County with vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of an accident that resulted in death. Because of this, the family of the victim can reach out to reliable professionals like car accident attorney san jose.
Jail records from Stutsman County, where Brandt was being held, show he posted $50,000 bond Tuesday and was released. His attorney did not immediately return a call for comment.
Brandt told investigators he left the scene after striking Ellingson, returned briefly, called 911 and then left again, according to a probable cause affidavit.
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The court document said Brandt told investigators he had been drinking alcohol before striking Ellingson and thought the teen was calling people to do him harm after they argued and that he felt threatened. Ellingson was rushed to a hospital in Carrington, where he was pronounced dead.
Investigators arrested Brandt at his home in Glenfield later Sunday. Officials said he consented to a chemical breath test which showed his blood alcohol content was above 0.08%, the legal limit to drive.
Capt. Bryan Niewind of the North Dakota Highway Patrol, which helped investigate the death, said the political argument claim by Brandt has not been substantiated because the investigation is still ongoing and more witnesses need to be interviewed. The specific details of the alleged argument were not released.
Ellingson’s parents later told police they knew Brandt, but they did not believe their son did, the affidavit said. Ellingson’s mother described how she was on her way to pick up her son from McHenry when he called her about 2:40 a.m. and asked if she knew Brandt. Ellingson called again a short time later and said “that ‘he’ or ‘they’ were chasing him.” She could no longer reach him after that, the document said.
An 18 y/o conservative is murdered by 41 year old leftist & the media is totally silent. No connection to Joe Biden and his insane speech of just 2 weeks ago… it’s as though it never happened & doesn’t matter. Of course Trump would not get that benefit b/c our media is broken!
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) September 21, 2022
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— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) September 22, 2022
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we are indeed lost as a nation.
the left wing satanist plan of collapse and destroy and rebuild as a commie nation is in full swing and the GOP in congress are weak and feckless
and part of the problem.
thats right i said it these career politicians are weak and plain cowards but they want our votes and our money and then do nothing but
get rich on lobby money and collusion.
ask yourself this, why do these cretons spend millions of dollars to get re-elected to a job that pays roughly 200k a year?
i can not honestly in my heart give the gop any more money.
I have not given the Republican Party a DIME since 2012–for exactly the reasons you stated. In my opinion, the kind of deranged violence in this article against anybody perceived to be a “Trump supporter” is EXACTLY what the conniving Demmunists who have illegally seized control of our government WANTED to happen, when they sent the senile sock puppet out to deliver that hateful, excrement-laden “Maga Republicans” RANT.
They’re hoping for a lot more of the same in hopes of terrorizing us to stop talking about the stolen election and what anti-American Communist SCUM they all are! Polls have have said at least half the Dem SHEEP followers actually now believe that “Maga Republicans”” are a “threat to their democracy.” If they’re talking about the kind of “mob rule democracy” that inevitably appears whenever a lot of Demmunists convene in a crowd, they are probably right! Otherwise, not so much. It is RICH them accusing US of “hating the Constitution,” etc, considering what THEY have done to undermine and destroy that document since they seized power!
I thought North Dacota, was a bastion of RED folk.. SO WHY is it this nutter, killed a teen, for “BEING a right wing extremist”??
“A driver charged with fatally striking a teenager in North Dakota allegedly told investigators he purposely hit the teen with his SUV after they had a political argument, according to court documents.”
I would think that this Shannon Brandt should be charged with 1st degree murder and held without bond, because it was premeditated murder.
But this Shannon Brandt appears to be a Democrat…. so we will have to wait and see if he is held accountable for his actions.
This appears to be a mockery of our system of justice, to say the least. This guy admitted to intentionally murdering this young man and he is freely walking the streets? This barely qualifies as a slap on the wrist; where is the justice in this?
WHAT justice?
He is already out on “no-bail release.” That should tell you all you need to know about whether or not he’ll face consequences for his deranged attack. The conniving Demmunists will probably give him the Medal of Freedom.
IIRC it was 50k bond.. SO he DID have to pay something..
This was so much about politics, but rather just one more failed secular socialist loser with no feelings of personal success of significance, lashing out at those whose ideological rectitude shames them by comparison. Each individual gets the choice to live in a capacity to first govern self, beginning with mind over emotions, or to just surrender to the paths of least resistance in surrendering the capability to self-govern, to live in the paths of least resistance of dependency to the emotions of the moment. Americans always won wars because the individually taught concepts of personal responsibility and despising of personal failure, that collectively resulted in the ability to defeat those who cannot think and act for themselves being taught that other people are better equipped to make your life decisions for you, particularly when it comes to how to spend your money, electing people who can only create chaos in the redistribution of other’s life forces, and the destruction of the American concepts of SELF-governing beginning with each and every individual in dependency indoctrination. Woke taught concepts of social dependency that elevates and rewards the losers and failures of society at the expense of the self-governing and American successful Strong is indeed the greatest threat to EVER making America Great Again. They are the enemy, who are killing your people and killing your country one victim at a time, soon many more.
In this case, bail should have been denied.
At least he GOT bail. Most leftist states would have released him WITHOUT any bail period.
Mr. Brandt, I bet he wishes he never took that bite out of the MARXIST DEMOCRAT’s APPLE. Lock him up.
Not likely,,,probably believes he himself is the victim here.
I agree with you Dave. Here is an intoxicated grown man that should not have been behind the wheel of a vehicle, thinks he was “threatened” by an 18 year old teenager, so he took the kid’s life. What a guy! Unbelievable!!
IF he IS a lefitst, of COURSE he sees HIMSELF as the victim…
Premediated murder and the perp is released on bail. I’m rarely at a loss for words, words I have for this case cannot be printed here.
If this is allowed to stand any hint of our legal system is long gone.
Since from one article i read, he left, THEN CAME BACK TO run that kid over, it certainly SHOULD BE premeditated..
Any hint of our “legal system” being anything more than the “enforcement arm” of Communist power grabs and brazen violations of the Bill of Rights disappeared as soon as the conniving Demmunists committed a “coup by ballot box” and illegally seized control of our government! The entire Justice Department, FBI, etc have been WEAPONIZED and now function as the KGB and GESTAPO of the Demmunist Party. We KNOW they have no LEGAL authority for anything they have done or are doing! THEY know that we know, and they FEAR and feel compelled to REPRESS all dissent for fear it will spread and force them out of power, so we must be SILENCED by whatever means necessary!
The left is made up of a bunch of deranged lawless haters who wouldn’t know what a true democrat republic looked like if it hit them in the face. They think only democrats should be free to express their views. Push back on their insane socialist dream and watch them come unhinged. There are two kinds of liberals, ones that need to be in jail and ones that need to be in a rubber room.
you can BET, had he ran over a liberal darling, HE WOULDN’T EVER get out of jail, and the left would be going after trump, for somehow INCITING HIM to do this…
A sign of things to come in the near future. Like 1860 all over again.
What the Dems want is a Socialist/Marxist Government! Look at their actions, it explains all.
Well, if he had “murdered” my child, confessed and then released on bail, he would mysteriously disappear.