A Garnett man will be sentenced Monday in connection with a September 2019 shooting in Garnett that wounded one of his neighbors. 56-year-old David Osler, of Garnett, pleaded no contest in late January to amended charges of second-degree attempted murder and criminal threat in connection with the September 22nd shooting of robin Durand while Durand was seated on a sofa inside his residence. He was initially charged with first degree attempted murder and related offenses. Through the no contest plea, Osler admitted to entering Durand’s home the afternoon of September 22nd and firing a single .45 caliber at the 67 Durand as he sat on his living room sofa. The slug entered and exited Durand’s body and was later recovered by investigating officers in the sofa he was sitting on. Durand was hospitalized for treatment and later released. A probable cause affidavit in the case said Osler left Durand’s home after the shooting and returned to his own house nearby where he staged weapons and ammunition in preparation for a shoot-out with police. Officers were eventually able to talk Osler into surrendering; Osler has been held in the Anderson county jail since his arrest on a 10 million dollar bond.
