Wichita man fleeing deputies hit power pole, killing passenger. He’s going to prison

A 24-year-old Wichita man has been sentenced to 19 years and five months in prison in connection with a traffic crash that killed a Wellington woman last year.

Sedgwick County District Judge Tyler Roush “followed the plea agreement” negotiated by lawyers when he sentenced Harry J. Rediker on Monday to 233 months in prison for the second-degree murder of 38-year-old Lindsey Garmon , said Dan Dillon, a spokesman for the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office. Rediker received an additional 32 months in prison for attempting to batter a jail deputy in March, court records show.

“Judge Roush ordered the sentences run consecutive for a total of 265 months in prison,” Dillon said — more than 22 years.

The judge “also ordered Rediker pay $10,085.68 to Evergy for repairing the damage done to a power pole that was sheared (off) at Taft and Hoover Road” when he crashed into it on Jan. 28, 2023, Dillon said. When he wrecked, Rediker was fleeing from law enforcement officers who had attempted to pull him over for driving in the wrong traffic lane on Kellogg Drive, near Hoover.

The crash happened around 5:22 a.m., less than a minute after deputies started chasing Rediker when he refused to stop , the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office said previously. A probable cause affidavit released by the court says Rediker ran a stop sign at Kellogg Drive and Hoover, sped 62 miles per hour in a 30-mph zone and failed to negotiate a curve in the road at Hoover and Taft in the moments before the crash.

Rediker “left the roadway,” hit a curb and slammed his Hyundai Elantra into the utility pole, shearing it off and “causing powerlines to hit the ground,” the affidavit says.

At the time of the crash, Rediker was a parole absconder, The Eagle previously reported.

Both Rediker and Garmon, who was a passenger in the car, were able to get out of the vehicle and a deputy helped them away from the downed utility lines. At the time, Rediker complained of leg pain, but Garmon had a “compound fracture with bone sticking out of her right leg,” which required a tourniquet. She was initially taken to a Wichita hospital in serious condition but died a few hours later, the affidavit says.

The coroner determined Garmon suffered blunt force trauma, multiple chest wall fractures and a laceration to her liver, in addition to the leg fracture. The blunt force trauma was fatal, the affidavit says.

Rediker pleaded guilty on May 3.

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