Man convicted in courthouse threat case gets probation

A Wichita man who suggested an attack on the Sedgwick County Courthouse as a murder trial drew to a close in July was placed on probation in the case Tuesday morning.

Sedgwick County District Court Judge Jeff Goering also ordered Samuel McCrory to complete anger management classes and to surrender his firearms, according to a notation in McCrory’s case file.

McCrory, 22, pleaded guilty in October to one count of criminal threat and three counts of criminal possession of a firearm by a convicted felon linked to comments he made on social media site Facebook.

His posts, authorities have said, asked whether it was “out of line to storm the courthouse” if a guilty verdict came down in the felony murder trial of Kyler Carriker, son of ex-gubernatorial candidate Jennifer Winn, and suggested that the “only way to defend yourself from a cop is to kill the cop.”

McCrory also drew public attention when he was seen in downtown Wichita toting an assault rifle and other weapons at protests and other events in the year before his arrest. Authorities had told worried callers that McCrory was exercising his right to carry openly, but he was in fact breaking the law, the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office later discovered, because a juvenile felony conviction McCrory received in 2008 barred him from possessing weapons for 10 years.

He was arrested and jailed July 30.

This story was originally published December 1, 2015 at 2:44 PM with the headline "Man convicted in courthouse threat case gets probation."