By Leah Sander
InkFreeNews

WARSAW — A North Webster man has been sentenced to four years for intimidation with a deadly weapon.

Ron L. Raisor, 55, 9313 E. Ponderosa Drive, North Webster, was sentenced for the charge, a Level 5 felony, in Kosciusko Superior Court 1 on Monday, Feb. 21.

Ron L. Raisor

Two other charges of criminal recklessness committed with a deadly weapon and pointing a firearm at another, both Level 6 felonies, were dismissed as part of a plea agreement.

According to a probable cause affidavit, Raisor had threatened to kill a woman he was in a relationship with when she wanted out of it.

Raisor fired a gun inside the home they were in. He then pointed the gun at the woman and threatened multiple times to shoot and kill her.

The woman gave a victim impact statement at Monday’s sentencing. She noted the incident had affected her mentally and she has received counseling due to it.

“I have been on constant guard and constantly looking over my shoulder,” she said, noting that she feels “vulnerable” about running into Raisor again.

She noted that Raisor hadn’t suffered any consequences so far from the incident, but that she had.

She’s experienced “triggers” of reliving the incident, such as when she was around kids popping balloons that reminded her of gunshots.

She also said she believes her dog was affected by the incident as he was inside the home when the incident occurred. He became more aggressive after the incident and bit her face unexpectedly recently. That caused her to need to seek medical treatment and scarred her face.

She said she had to put down the dog due to that.

Regarding that Raisor might get home detention for the incident, the woman said that would “not evenly counter the consequences I’ve been through.”

Defense Attorney John Barrett said Raisor had “behaved horribly on the day in question.”

He noted Raisor didn’t have a criminal history aside from a misdemeanor case in the 1980s. He said such an incident wasn’t likely to occur again as Raisor can now no longer have firearms due to it.

“I’m very sorry for my actions,” said Raisor. “This is not who I am. … This is not how I react to things (aside from the incident).”

Kosciusko Superior Court 1 Judge Karin McGrath noted Raisor had a “substantial period of law-abiding behavior,” but that doesn’t negate what happened in the incident.

She said she’d “heard some pretty compelling testimony” in court Monday about what happened, “and that’s at your hands, Sir,” speaking to Raisor.

McGrath sentenced Raisor to four years in the Kosciusko County Jail with one executed and the rest to be served through probation. She also ordered him to pay restitution of $364.76, which is to compensate for some doctor’s visits and prescriptions the woman’s had as a result of the incident.

She also ordered Raisor to have no contact with the woman and to complete a domestic violence program through probation.

“Someone you claim to love for many years should not be the recipient (of such a reaction),” McGrath told Raisor.