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Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Window shooter arrested on suspicion of mail tampering



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David Scott Killen, set for sentencing in Douglas County on a two-county shooting spree, was arrested in Carson City on Sunday with two others on suspicion of rifling

mail boxes for gift cards and credit card offers.

Assistant Carson City District Attorney Gerald Gardner said Killen was being

held in jail on $50,000 bail, charged with one count of tampering with mail.

He is set for a preliminary hearing on Dec. 21.

The arrests came one day before Killen’s original sentencing date in Douglas

County on a charge of willful destruction of property.

Last week, the Douglas sentencing was changed from Dec. 10 to Jan. 28 to

allow Killen to earn more money for restitution and to give the state Parole

and Probation Department time to prepare a presentence report.

Gardner said Tuesday that although Killen is presumed innocent on the mail

tampering, the charge is a felony.

“If he is convicted of the mail-tampering charge, it probably would affect

his sentencing on the destruction of property case,” Gardner said.

According to the Carson City Sheriff’s Office, three Carson City men were

arrested around 5:30 a.m. Sunday in the 100 block of Cogorno Way on

suspicion of taking and opening mail.

The three allegedly were taking mail out of mail boxes looking for holiday

cards and credit card offers.

Deputies said the car they were driving allegedly had a stack of other

people’s opened and unopened letters.

On Feb. 12, Killen shot out windows in cars and businesses in Douglas County and

Carson City before he was pulled over in the Gardnerville Ranchos after he

shot at a vehicle driven by Stephanie Carney at the intersection of Riverview and Dresslerville.

Carney and her teenage daughter were unhurt, but she was able to identify

Killen as the shooter.

Killen pleaded guilty in Douglas County in October to the willful

destruction charge. He faces up to one year in Douglas County Jail and a

$2,000 fine.

He was released from prison in August 2005 after serving a sentence for

felony arson.

When he was a juvenile, he and his brother admitted setting a neighbor’s lawn

on fire.


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