Colton Donner biography: 10 things about Paola, Kansas man

Colton Ray Donner is a white man from Paola, Miami County, Kansas, United States. Here are 10 more things about him:

1. In 2017, he was convicted of vehicular eluding in Chaffee County, Colorado, USA.
2. On September 11, 2019, he was driving through a residential area of Paola when he saw an African American male juvenile identified as D.H. walking on the sidewalk. He stopped, got out of the car, approached D.H. while brandishing a knife, threatened D.H., yelled racial slurs and told D.H. that Paola is a “white town.”
3. On October 12, 2019, he knowingly and unlawfully possessed a silver Charter Arms, .44 caliber SPL Bulldog Pug revolver knowing he had previously been convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year.
4. On November 23, 2020, a federal grand jury in Kansas City, Kansas returned an indictment charging him with hate crime for racially motivated threat of a minor and for unlawfully possessing a firearm.
5. On January 1, 2021, the Miami County Sheriff’s Office in Paola booked him into jail on a warrant arrest. He was accused of criminal possession of firearm by a felon.
6. On May 25, 2021, the Miami County Sheriff’s Office booked him into jail for alleged domestic battery.
7. On June 4, 2021, deputies from the Bourbon County Sheriff’s Office in Fort Scott, Kansas arrested him for failure to appear.
8. On July 16, 2021, the Miami County Sheriff’s Office booked him into jail on a warrant arrest.
9. On February 10, 2022, he pleaded guilty in federal court to threatening an African American man with a knife because of the man’s race and in order to intimidate and interfere with the man’s right to fair housing.
10. He was 27 years old when he pleaded guilty to racially motivated federal hate crime targeting a black man.