Court records shed more light on a Fond du Lac man who was sentenced this week in connection with an armed standoff with police. Shannon Rogler was sentenced this week to 40 years in prison. District Attorney Eric Toney says investigators learned that Rogler had planned the incident and appears to have wanted to get into a shootout with police. “What we know based on the information is that there was a relationship issue Mr. Rogler was having and that he started giving away money and some of his possessions the day before December 9th when the fire was started and he opened fire on law enforcement,” Toney told WFDL news. Nobody was injured when Rogler opened fire on officers at the Elms Mobile Home Park on South Main Street December 9th, 2013. Toney says Rogler admitted he was surprised that police did not return fire. Similar to the subject who shot and killed a state patrol trooper in Fond du lac earlier this year, Rogler also appears to have had a white supremacist background. “What I know from one of the officer’s reports is that when they did a search warrant of his residence they found some books related to Adolph Hitler, Nazis, the Aryan Nation and some white power information,” Toney said. “How deeply Mr. Rogler could have been involved in that I don’t know.”
