Judge sentences Wabaunsee to 13 years in Mayetta shooting death

HOLTON — Lloyd Wabaunsee, 23, was sentenced Friday to 13 years in prison in the Jan. 10 shooting death of Kevin Stanley, 29, at the victim’s Mayetta home.

Jackson County District Court Judge Michael Ireland imposed the sentence in a hearing that lasted eight minutes. Wabaunsee declined to say anything, and no one spoke on behalf of Stanley’s family.

Stanley was fatally shot at the home he rented at 206 E. James St. in Mayetta.

The sentencing started a few minutes late because Wabaunsee was late in leaving the Shawnee County Jail to be transported to Holton.

Wabaunsee, of Mayetta, pleaded no contest to intentional second-degree murder Sept. 27. As part of the agreement, prosecution and defense attorneys recommended a sentence of 13 years.

Wabaunsee will be credited with the eight months he has been incarcerated while the case was pending.

While Wabaunsee is in prison, it would be in his "best interest" to get any drug treatment available, Ireland said.

The sentencing range for a second-degree murder conviction for someone with his criminal history ranges between 18 years and five months to 20 years and six months. The standard sentence is 19 years and six months.

Wabaunsee has a criminal history of three or more nonperson felonies, Ireland said.

After completing his prison sentence, Wabaunsee must register as a violent offender in Kansas for 15 years, the judge said.

Wabaunsee is the fourth and last defendant to be sentenced in the case.

Wabaunsee was arrested along with two women and another man after he was found hiding in the trunk of a car in a grocery store parking lot in Urbandale, Iowa, about a week after Stanley’s death.

He was located with Desiree Shopteese, the fiancee of David Tiscareno, who fatally shot two Topeka police officers in December 2012.

Shopteese initially was charged with intentional second-degree murder in the Stanley slaying, but the charge was reduced to obstructing apprehension of prosecution. She was sentenced on May 24 to eight months of incarceration, then was placed on 18 months of supervised probation.

Shopteese was returned to custody after she violated the terms of her probation by testing positive for methamphetamine.

Co-defendant Rachel Dawn Hudson, 36, of Denison, was sentenced to about 11 months in jail, then placed on probation. Hudson was convicted of two counts of obstructing apprehension of prosecution, Jackson County District Court records said.

Aaron Vance Lofton, 29, of Topeka, made a plea on May 15 to obstructing the apprehension of prosecution of a felony and was sentenced to 12 months on June 13.