Ashley Dyrdahl admitted on Tuesday that she had purchased the weapons her partner used to raid and shoot three first responders in Burnsville last time, shaking her voice.
Dyrdahl, 36, pleaded guilty in U. S. District Court in St. Paul to two claims of grass getting, which means she knowingly bought weapon for a man prohibited from owning them. In exchange, state officials will reject nine more charges brought by a federal grand jury in March.
Dyrdahl’s partner, 38-year-old Shannon Cortez Gooden fired more than 100 shells from the illegally-purchased arms last February when officers responded to his and Dyrdahl’s house on a domestic abuse visit. Officials Paul Elmstrand and Matthew Ruge, both 27, and 40-year-old firefighter/paramedic Adam Finseth were killed. Gooden even inflicted a policeman sgt. Before committing suicide, Adam Medlicott.
In exchange for her appeal, Dyrdahl’s recommended word is around 37 weeks. Although the expected plea agreement will establish a sentencing selection based on federal guidelines, federal judges have a lot of discretion and are free to change what the guidelines suggest. Following a pre-sentence research, district judge Jerry Blackwell does determine the length.
” Your actions here go beyond the purchase of firearms”, Blackwell told Dyrdahl. ” Your actions in this case contributed further to the cycle]of gun violence ]”.
Dyrdahl declined to comment while leaving the court, but her defence lawyer read a statement expressing her “deep, strong grief”. They hope the area is a little helped by her appeal.
Medlicott, Elmstrand’s family, Ruge’s mother and sister, and Finseth’s family attended Tuesday’s reading, but delayed responses to Burnsville Fire Department Chief BJ Jungmann.
Jungmann expressed satisfaction that Dyrdahl will accept responsibility for the killing, but Jungmann emphasized that there is little gain from doing so.
The difficult part is that we didn’t truly get what we want, “here. We can’t get back our three coworkers that are essential to us and the people”, Jungmann said. ” It shook the core of the group”.
According to the prosecution:
In 2016, Dyrdahl began a relationship with Gooden, and knew that he had formerly been convicted of second-degree rape, a criminal, which precluded him from owning firearms. She acknowledged Gooden’s conviction and crime in a letter that she wrote in support of his plea to recover his rifle rights in a February 2019 letter. That plea was afterwards denied. Despite this, the expenses said, Dyrdahl bought five weapon from two officially licensed retailers between September 2023 and January before “knowingly and willfully” transferring them to Gooden.
Three automatic AR-15-style weapons lower-receivers were some of the guns Dyrdahl purchased and gave to Gooden under his control. One was a semiautomatic rifle of the type Franklin Armory FAI-15.300 caliber with a linear cause. When the button is pulled and the cause is released, a weapon’s linear trigger shoots one shot, effectively doubling the fire rate. Dyrdahl even purchased a.300-caliber chamber for the lower device.
Dyrdahl knew Gooden was loading the automatic AR-15-style weapon with .300 Dark weapons, which is a heavier weight weapons that has an increased possibility for being destructive, prosecutors said.
According to the indictment, law enforcement discovered a” hoard of fully loaded newspapers as well as boxes with hundreds of extra rounds of ammunition and firearms” in the Gooden and Dyrdahl shared bathroom.
Gooden was prohibited from possessing firearms or weapons by a second-degree rape conviction in Dakota County in 2008. He repeatedly petitioned the jury in August 2020 to reclaim his right to possess a gun. According to court documents, he claimed that he wanted to protect both himself and his relatives.
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