HUTCHINSON, Kan. — We’ll have to wait one more week to learn the fate of a 26-year-old Hutchinson man who entered pleas to two felony charges.
Christopher A. Vanwye entered “no contest” pleas to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and one count of criminal discharge of a firearm. A second count of criminal discharge of a firearm, possession of stolen property and misdemeanor possession of marijuana were dismissed by the state as part of a plea agreement.
The sentencing hearing was scheduled for Friday, but a last minute change postponed the hearing till next Friday.
Vanwye was convicted for threatening his mother’s fiance during an altercation back on Dec. 15, 2014. He’s alleged to have put the gun to the head of Delbert East while threatening him.
Vanwye had then put the gun to his head and his mother pushed the chair he was in and the gun went off, missing her son, but going through a wall, this at a home in the 800 block of West 14th. The bullet then entered a neighbors home through a window and lodged in some drywall in that home.
Whenever the hearing occurs, it will be in front of Judge Tim Chambers.