{"id":354464,"date":"2010-02-23T16:46:08","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T21:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/press-releases\/man-who-supplied-gun-in-watseka-killing-sentenced-to-nine-years"},"modified":"2010-02-23T16:46:08","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T21:46:08","slug":"man-who-supplied-gun-in-watseka-killing-sentenced-to-nine-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/354464","title":{"rendered":"Man who supplied gun in Watseka killing sentenced to nine years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>\n\tWATSEKA \u2014 An Iroquois County judge on Monday sentenced a Watseka man to nine years in prison for his role in the death of a Watseka man.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tChad Walwer, 25, had pleaded guilty in December to unlawful possession of weapon by a felon, admitting that he brought a gun to McSki\u2019s Lounge in Watseka on April 14 that Jeffrey Hite, 31, is accused of using to fatally shoot Roger McVay.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWalwer had been charged with Mr. McVay\u2019s murder on a theory that he was accountable for the actions of Hite. That charge was dismissed when Walwer pleaded guilty to possessing the weapon.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBecause of prior convictions for residential burglary and aggravated battery, Walwer had to be sentenced as a Class X felon. <span id=\"more-21073\"><\/span>He faced a maximum of 30 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tJudge Gordon Lustfeldt sentenced Walwer.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHite is charged with murder. His case is unresolved.<br \/>\n\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Distributed via <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\" rel='nofollow'>Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/XBkj7yl-ZYuuHhz0aZuxKiv8e70\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/XBkj7yl-ZYuuHhz0aZuxKiv8e70\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/XBkj7yl-ZYuuHhz0aZuxKiv8e70\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/XBkj7yl-ZYuuHhz0aZuxKiv8e70\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=EX8ku7KO7qM:aBPc100uRuc:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=EX8ku7KO7qM:aBPc100uRuc:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=EX8ku7KO7qM:aBPc100uRuc:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?i=EX8ku7KO7qM:aBPc100uRuc:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/windycitynews\/~4\/EX8ku7KO7qM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WATSEKA \u2014 An Iroquois County judge on Monday sentenced a Watseka man to nine years in prison for his role in the death of a Watseka man. Chad Walwer, 25, had pleaded guilty in December to unlawful possession of weapon by a felon, admitting that he brought a gun to McSki\u2019s Lounge in Watseka on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}