Police: Body found near where truck of Lafayette man accused in attempted murder, kidnapping was discovered
Plus, SK hynix responds to new non-disclosure agreement with West Lafayette
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POLICE: BODY FOUND NEAR WHERE TRUCK OF LAFAYETTE MAN ACCUSED IN ATTEMPTED MURDER, KIDNAPPING WAS DISCOVERED
The body of an adult man was found Friday near Stockwell, near where 10 days earlier police had found the truck of a Lafayette man accused in an April 6 attempted murder and kidnapping at the Overlook Pointe Apartments, police said.
Police had not identified the person found around 11 a.m. near County Roads 900 South and 700 East as of Friday afternoon, saying that would come later from the Tippecanoe County coroner. The same went for the cause and manner of the man’s death.
Police also did not immediately say how the body was discovered or who reported finding it.
But Lafayette police confirmed that the man’s body was found near where they found a silver 2011 Ford F-150 pickup truck that belonged to Adam McDaniel, 37, of Lafayette. Police reported that the truck was found April 7, the day after the shooting and kidnapping of a 7-year-old boy, but that McDaniel had fled. Police had warned through the past week and a half that McDaniel was considered armed and dangerous.
Earlier this week, charges were unsealed showing McDaniel accused of 11 counts, including attempted murder and kidnapping, after he shot the boy’s father, Rayne Shideler, twice in the parking lot of Overlook Pointe Apartments in southern Lafayette as he prepared to take his son to school the morning of April 6.
McDaniel’s charges implicated him in an alleged conspiracy with Marrissa Parker, a 34-year-old Lafayette woman, to commit the crimes after she allegedly first offered money to get custody of the 7-year-old.
Parker was charged last week with seven counts, including kidnapping and conspiracy to commit kidnapping. She’d been held on a $10,000 bond at the Tippecanoe County Jail, but was no longer in custody Friday afternoon, according to jail records. Court records show this week she requested a public defender but was denied. Her next court hearing is scheduled for May 15, according to court records.
According to court documents with the charges, investigators say Parker wasn’t the boy’s mother but that she’d gotten to know him through his biological mother. A probable cause affidavit says the boy spent time at Parker’s home, that she considered them to have a mother/son relationship and that he called her “mom.”
According to court documents, investigators say they found a text message Parker sent Shideler on March 26 “offering money in exchange to have custody” of the boy. Investigators said that came after Shideler, who had custody of his son, had texted Parker on March 17, telling her that he didn’t want Parker in the boy’s life anymore and to stop contacting him.
According to the court documents, investigators say McDaniel, Parker’s boyfriend, had tracked where the boy was on several occasions in the week leading up to the shooting and kidnapping, reporting back to Parker.
Police reported last week that McDaniel confronted Shideler outside the apartment complex, as Shideler was getting ready to take his son and another child to school. Charging documents say that when Shideler went back into the apartment to get something, McDaniel got into the backseat of the vehicle, pointed a gun at the other child to get him to leave and then shot Shideler in the chest in a struggle over the boy. Police reported that witnesses that morning say McDaniel stood over Shideler and shot him again in the neck.
The charging documents say Shideler and others on the scene identified McDaniel as the man who shot him.
The day of the shooting, police say Parker told them that the boy had come to her home wearing his backpack. Later, according to court documents, police say they discovered evidence from Parker’s phone that disputed that, indicating that she’d gone to a cemetery minutes before the shooting. Police say they also found letters in the cemetery from McDaniel, who had been there an hour earlier, though it’s not said in court documents what was written in the letters. Police say Parker went to nearby baseball fields to get the boy from McDaniel.
The boy was found safe later that day at Parker’s grandmother’s house in Rossville.
An update on Shideler’s condition wasn’t immediately available.
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SK HYNIX ON ITS NEW NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT WITH WEST LAFAYETTE: Earlier this week, the West Lafayette board of works ratified a non-disclosure agreement with SK hynix that city officials say will put the South Korean company on the hook for defending records requests tied to its $3.87 billion semiconductor facility that company officials contend should be considered trade secrets or “potentially other sensitive company information” under the state’s public access laws. The non-disclosure agreement between the city and SK hynix – a first of its kind for the city, covering how public records regarding the company would be managed – was met with some skepticism by critics of plans to build the facility in West Lafayette. But Eric Burns, the city’s general counsel, said the agreement was meant to “strengthen the city’s hand” when it came to public records tied to building permits and other regulatory steps coming with the plant.
On Thursday, SK hynix responded to BiL questions about what sort of information would be in their plans – whether dealing with material storage, manufacturing process, equipment layout or anything else – that were considered confidential or trade secrets.
The company released this statement to BiL: “While semiconductor technology is a critical asset containing sensitive trade secrets, we respect the public’s right to request information under the Access to Public Records Act. This document should be viewed as a tool to facilitate information disclosure for maximum transparency, rather than to hide it.”
According to the agreement, SK hynix will “clearly write ‘confidential’ or ‘trade secret information’ or similar language” on any document furnished to the city “that the company consider to be excepted from disclosure requirements under (Indiana’s Access to Public Records Act).” The agreement lays out that it would be up to SK hynix to offer the rationale to keep those records from public release. The agreement states that those documents would be considered outside rules for disclosure to the public and that all others would be considered ready for release when requested.
The agreement also stipulates that the company would defend and cover costs of any legal challenge the city faced over holding back records.
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Sorry but I think we should make NDA's illegal. If your transactions cannot bear public scrutiny, then perhaps they shouldn't have been made in the first place.
Thanks, Dave. Curious response. Sounds like the information will be free flowing. May that be the case. We shall see. No word back yet on the outstanding question.