The evening of the shooting, Adams learned Lauderdale was at the club, flirting with the woman. Investigators later learned Lauderdale and Adams vied for the attention of a stripper they had met at Firehouse Cabaret. Detectives found a gun hidden in the bushes along Lauderdale's alleged escape route. He denied seeing Adams or being involved in an altercation on the night of the shooting, according to the statement. God will take care of it," Holt said.Īccording to a probable cause statement filed in Marion County after the shooting, Lauderdale fled the scene but eventually was arrested by Salem police. "He will pay for every sin he's committed. Lauderdale stared out the courtroom window as she cried about the 18-year sentence. "He would walk in a room and light up the whole room with his smile," she said.
She said Adams was a loving, committed father with an infectious, cheerful personality. She brought a large photograph of Adams with his son to court. "I think he should get murder because he shot and killed my hubby point blank in the head." "I don't think manslaughter one is enough," Holt said. Three weeks later, on the same day Adams would've celebrated his 32nd birthday, she gave birth to their daughter in the same hospital where he died. She was pregnant with her and Adams' second child when she learned of his death. Adams was taken to Salem hospital and died several days later.Īdams' fiancee, Denise Holt, spoke at Lauderdale's sentencing before Judge Jamese Rhoades. When medics arrived near Ewald Avenue S and Duplex Court SE just before midnight on July 9, 2015, they found Adams lying on the ground with a gunshot wound to his forehead. He pleaded no contest to unlawful use of a weapon. He pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter and illegal possession of a firearm by a felon. 20, his charges were reduced to manslaughter. Lauderdale was initially charged with murder for his role in the shooting, but at a settlement conference Oct. A Keizer man was sentenced Friday to 18 years in prison for shooting and killing another man outside a southeast Salem strip club in July 2015.Ĭhristopher Lauderdale, 29, was accused of shooting Roderick Adams Jr., 31, of Salem after a dispute outside Presley's Playhouse Cabaret.
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