Friday, November 19, 2010
Deadly Obsession Nets Mercer County Man Prison Time
WEST VIRGINIA....
Thomas C. Shrader of Mercer County was sentenced this week to 19 years and 7 months by U.S. District Judge Irene Berger who opted for the maximum under proposed penalties for offenders deemed armed career criminals. Shrader was found guilty earlier this year of interstate stalking and of being a felon in possession of firearms. Prosecutors say an obsessed Shrader had tracked down his ex-girlfriend, identified as D. S., and her family in Texas before phoning her and then, last year, sending her a 32-page ultimatum that warned, "Running won't do you any good." In July 1975, Shrader went to the girl's home following their high school breakup, and, with a rifle, blasted his way in and fatally shot Howard Adams Jr., a family friend who was visiting while on leave from the military, and the girl's mother. He was sentenced to a life term with a chance for parole and was released from prison in 1993. He escaped from the McDowell County Jail in the late 1970s and went to look for D. S. while on the lam.
Thomas C. Shrader of Mercer County was sentenced this week to 19 years and 7 months by U.S. District Judge Irene Berger who opted for the maximum under proposed penalties for offenders deemed armed career criminals. Shrader was found guilty earlier this year of interstate stalking and of being a felon in possession of firearms. Prosecutors say an obsessed Shrader had tracked down his ex-girlfriend, identified as D. S., and her family in Texas before phoning her and then, last year, sending her a 32-page ultimatum that warned, "Running won't do you any good." In July 1975, Shrader went to the girl's home following their high school breakup, and, with a rifle, blasted his way in and fatally shot Howard Adams Jr., a family friend who was visiting while on leave from the military, and the girl's mother. He was sentenced to a life term with a chance for parole and was released from prison in 1993. He escaped from the McDowell County Jail in the late 1970s and went to look for D. S. while on the lam.
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