| | In the spring of 2019, Ryder perished at the age of sixty-seven in a two-vehicle accident on U.S. Highway 550 north of Durango.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://durangoherald.com/articles/273954-photo-and-video-durangoans-pay-tribute-to-musician-greg-ryder|title=Photo and video: Durangoans pay tribute to musician Greg Ryder|date=April 24, 2019|author=Jerry McBride|publisher=''The Durango Herald''|accessdate=August 27, 2019}}</ref> A memorial service was held at the hotel on September 7, 2019. | | In the spring of 2019, Ryder perished at the age of sixty-seven in a two-vehicle accident on U.S. Highway 550 north of Durango.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://durangoherald.com/articles/273954-photo-and-video-durangoans-pay-tribute-to-musician-greg-ryder|title=Photo and video: Durangoans pay tribute to musician Greg Ryder|date=April 24, 2019|author=Jerry McBride|publisher=''The Durango Herald''|accessdate=August 27, 2019}}</ref> A memorial service was held at the hotel on September 7, 2019. |
| − | In December 2019, La Plata Judge Dondi Osborn rejected a plea agreement in the careless driving case that resulted in Ryder's death. The judge said that the plea agreement, which would have sentenced Nathaniel Andrew, a former La Plata County sheriff's deputy who fell asleep at the wheel of his Ford pickup on his way home from a 12-hour shift at the La Plata County Jail, to 160 days of electronic home monitoring, was too lenient. Instead, Osborne said that she would settle for nothing less than ten days in jail.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/judge-denies-plea-deal-in-crash-that-killed-greg-ryder/|title=Judge denies plea deal in crash that killed Greg Ryder: Former sheriff’s deputy fell asleep at wheel after 12-hour shift|author=Bret Hauff|date=December 31, 2019|accessdate=August 24, 2024}}</ref> | + | In December 2019, La Plata Judge Dondi Osborn rejected a plea agreement in the careless driving case that resulted in Ryder's death. The judge said that the plea agreement, which would have sentenced Nathaniel Andrew, then twenty-four years old, a former La Plata County sheriff's deputy who fell asleep at the wheel of his Ford pickup on his way home from a 12-hour shift at the La Plata County Jail, to 160 days of electronic home monitoring, was too lenient. Instead, Osborne said that she would settle for nothing less than ten days in jail.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/judge-denies-plea-deal-in-crash-that-killed-greg-ryder/|title=Judge denies plea deal in crash that killed Greg Ryder: Former sheriff’s deputy fell asleep at wheel after 12-hour shift|author=Bret Hauff|date=December 31, 2019|accessdate=August 24, 2024}}</ref> |