BULLHEAD CITY – A second Bullhead City resident will serve prison time for her role in a drive-by shooting last spring. Mohave County Superior Court judge Derek Carlisle ordered a two-year prison term during a Feb. 12 sentencing hearing for Madilyn Hammarstedt, 20.
Carlisle previously imposed a seven-year prison term for case co-defendant Brendon Laflair, 19. Laflair and Hammarstedt were both convicted of aggravated assault charges through separate plea agreements.
Judge Carlisle said Laflair’s prior conviction, also for aggravated assault, was the primary factor in the five-year discrepancy in prison punishment.
The defendants had been in a dispute with others involving Hammartedt’s former partner, and they admitted traveling together to where the man resided at the River Springs apartments at 1775 Arriba Drive on May 14, 2025.
Police and prosecutors have said that a woman standing outside the apartment complex that had been involved in the ongoing conflict had to take cover when multiple rounds of gunfire erupted from the vehicle occupied by the defendants. No one was injured.
Hammarstedt and Laflair both denied responsibility for the drive-by shooting, instead implicating an unidentified third party for the gunfire, an allegation that was not substantiated. Authorities maintain that it was Laflair who was responsible for the gunfire.
