HUTCHINSON, Kan. — A Hutchinson man who recently entered a guilty plea in connection with a 2017 shooting was sentenced to five years in prison Tuesday morning.
Maique Rodriguez was originally charged with attempted first-degree murder in the shooting of his uncle, Jesus Faudoa. Instead, Rodriguez pleaded guilty in October to aggravated battery and robbery. He was given five years on the battery charge and another 32 months for robbery with the sentences running concurrently.
District Attorney Tom Stanton said the victim was agreeable to the sentence and, according to Stanton, didn’t even show up for Tuesday’s hearing.
Faudoa was found shot multiple times in the 700 block of East 7th Avenue. Rodriguez then took the victim's cell phone and pickup. He was arrested in El Paso, Texas, earlier this year and brought back to Reno County.