STERLING A standoff in central Kansas following the separate shootings of Rice County Sheriff Bryant Evans, 53, and Undersheriff Chad Murphy, 48, after the dead body of the suspected perpetrator was found in a rural Rice County home late Monday.
The Kansas Bureau said Murphy attempted a car stop just north of Sterling shortly after 5 p.m. Monday because of a warrant for the vehicles occupant, David L. Madden, 37, Alden.
Within 30 seconds of initiating the car stop, Murphy radioed to dispatch that he had been shot, according to the KBI.
Murphy was shot four times and was flown to a Wichita hospital. He was listed in critical, but stable, condition.
Following the shooting, Sheriff Evans learned information that Madden likely fled to a residence in rural Rice County, southeast of Raymond, according to the KBI. He and another sheriffs deputy arrived at the residence and encountered Madden. Gunshots were exchanged, and one round struck the sheriff in the leg.
Evans was taken to a local hospital, then transported to Wichita, for his injury. He was listed in good condition, KBI said.
Several law enforcement agencies descended upon the scene, leading to an extended standoff that ended shortly before midnight, when KBI officials announced via social media that two bodies, both adult men, had been found inside the home.
While they did not identify the bodies, the KBI posting noted that there was no longer public threat related to the incident.
THE HUTCHINSON news reported Madden had been indicted recently on federal charges for illegally possessing a machine gun, stemming from a 2017 case in which Madden had been under investigation for the disappearance of his girlfriend, Megan Rene Foglesong, 22.
On that day in 2017, Madden led law enforcement on a high-speed chase that began in Ellinwood and went through Rice and Barton counties before being called off, the newspaper reported. He was later arrested at his home in Alden following a standoff. A couple of days later, the KBI, serving a search warrant on the property, recovered two wooden crates containing two dozen pipe bombs, each wrapped with baling wire and black tape, in an outbuilding.
The KBI secured the home, returning to search further in March 2017, when a fully automatic AK47 machine gun was found under Maddens bed, the News reported. In a jailhouse interview with the KBI, Madden admitted to finding the machine gun in Fallujah, Iraq, when he was there fighting for the U.S. Marine Corps, and bringing it back to the U.S.
Madden entered a no contest plea in connection with the law enforcement chase in June 2018 and was placed on probation, the newspaper said. Charges in connection with the weapons, however, were not filed until earlier this month. It was unclear why there was a filing delay in the federal case.
The Kansas Department of Corrections listed Madden as an absconder on Feb. 11.
