Shocking Twist: North Dakota Senator’s Son Gets 28 Years For Killing Deputy During Wild Escape

More than a year after a law enforcement chase last year, the one that involved the fatal shooting of a sheriff’s deputy was handed a 28-year prison jab on Monday; he is a son to Sen Kevin Cramer, R-N.D.

Ian Cramer, 43, pleaded guilty in September to nine charges, including homicide while fleeing a peace officer, reckless endangerment possession of drugs related to the event, reckless endangerment, homicide while fleeing a peace officer, and possession of drugs related to the event, all tied to a pursuit in the year prior to the shooting that killed Deputy Paul Martin, aged 53.

Cramer was condemned for his activity by Head State District Async Judge Bobbi Weiler in a procedure conducted Monday, who asserted that the man would not serve the full 28 years of his punishment.

“These are not mandatory minimums as in other states, which means that you are likely to do a small proportion of that 28 years and be out on parole,” Weiler said.

The North Dakota Highway Patrol has maintained that Cramer caused the death of Martin when he swerved and hit another unoccupied Mercer County sheriff’s patrol car that, in turn, ran over Martin as he was busy putting together a tire deflation device to stop the chase.

Kevin McCabe a public defender for Cramer does not want to discuss the sentencing Monday night on the record. The Mercer County state’s attorney did not reply to a request for an interview.

A spokesman for Cramer’s father – a first-term Republican Senator who was previously a House member for nearly six years before being elected to the Senate in 2018 – did not respond to a request for comments on the same.

Later, Cramer spoke in a press release in defense of his son when the charges were filed in the year 2019 for him to have serious mental disorders, which manifest in severe paranoia and hallucination.