Arrests made in connection with violent weekend party
09/26/2019

(KAIR)--Three arrests are made in connection with a Doniphan County fight that left a 42-year-old man critically injured. 

According to the Kansas Bureau of investigation, the arrests were made Wednesday evening after search warrants were served.  

Taken into custody in connection with the fight, that left the man with what the KBI is calling serious head injuries, were 44-year-old Scott Vandeloo, 22-year-old Brian Spillman, Jr., and 30-year-old Matthew Scherer. All three suspects are identified in a release issued by the KBI as residents of Atchison. 

Vandeloo was arrested in Platte City, Missouri on a charge of aggravated battery. He was booked into the Platte County Jail. 

Spillman was arrested after he surrendered at the intersection of Mineral Point Road and Monument Road in rural Doniphan County. 

Scherer was arrested at the Doniphan County Sheriff’s Office.
Both Spillman and Scherer were booked into the Leavenworth County Jail and face charges of aggravated battery. 

The attack the three are accused of occurred during an overnight party at 159 Monument Road in Doniphan County. 

According to the KBI, the fight happened early Sunday morning. 

Following the altercation, the victim was driven by a family member to a residence in the 1600 block of Atchison’s Jayhawk Drive. Police and EMS were called around 4:20 Sunday morning and found the victim lying on the ground outside the residence. 

First transported to the Atchison Hospital, he was later transferred to a Kansas City area hospital where he remains hospitalized in critical condition. 

The KBI was assisted with Wednesday evening’s arrests by the Atchison Police Department, the Doniphan County Sheriff’s Department, the Kansas Highway Patrol, the Missouri State Highway Patrol, and the Platte County Sheriff’s Office. 

The Doniphan County Attorney is expected to prosecute the case.

According to the release, no additional details are being immediately made public.


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