In 2025, The Gateway Pundit reported that an Arkansas father, Aaron Spencer, who killed a man he discovered in a car with his 14-year-old daughter last year, announced that he is running for sheriff in Lonoke County after the system failed his daughter.
As TGP’s Brian Lupo previously reported, Spencer called the Lonoke County Sheriff’s Department on October 8, 2024, to report his missing 14-year-old daughter.
While deputies were en route to his home, Spencer called back around 1:12 am to inform dispatch that he had found his daughter in a truck with Michael Fosler, a 67-year-old man.
After pursuing Fosler, there was a vehicle crash, at which point an altercation allegedly ensued. Spencer shot Fosler during the altercation.
Fosler had previously been arrested and booked in July by another agency for internet stalking of a child and sexual assault, according to Lonoke County Sheriff John Staley.
In October 2024, Spencer was initially charged with the second-degree murder of Fosler.
Now, according to court records obtained by Fox News Digital, “Special Circuit Court Judge Ralph Wilson Jr. dismissed the charges against Spencer on Thursday.”
The judge cited law enforcement’s mishandling of dash-camera and SD card evidence from Spencer’s truck, adding a dismissal is “an extraordinary and extreme remedy” in any criminal case.
“However, based on the totality of the circumstances and the unique, specific, and particular facts and circumstances of this case, the Court finds that conduct by law enforcement was so egregious that dismissal of this case is warranted,” the judge wrote.
Spencer’s defense team argued that law enforcement lost a critical SD card that may have contained video footage of the altercation — and failed to provide any documentation about when it went missing or how it disappeared.
The judge ruled that “the loss or destruction of the internal SD memory card of the dash camera has adversely impaired the Defendant’s ability to defend himself pursuant to these defenses, and thus his right to a fair trial,” according to court documents.
In his decision to run, Spencer noted that the justice system failed to protect his daughter.
“This campaign isn’t about me… It’s about every parent, every neighbor, every family who deserves to feel safe in their homes and safe in their community.”
Watch Spencer’s campaign announcement below:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/arkansas-dad-sheriff-candidate-cleared-after-shooting-death/
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