Wichita ? An usher at the Kansas church where Dr. George Tiller was gunned down says the suspect had attended some services there.

Scott Roeder is charged with first-degree murder and aggravated assault in Sunday’s shooting at Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita.

One of the assault charges involves an alleged threat against Gary Hoepner, who was serving as an usher with Tiller.

Hoepner told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the 51-year-old Roeder had attended some services at the church before the shooting.

Hoepner also confirmed a report first aired by Wichita TV station KAKE that Roeder sometimes put odd notes rather than money in the collection plate. He says one of the notes asked, “Do you believe in taxes?”

Roeder had been living in Kansas City, Mo., about 170 miles from Wichita.

Meanwhile, an attorney for Roeder has asked a judge to set bond for the suspect.

In a motion filed Wednesday in Sedgwick County District Court, public defender Steve Osburn cited Kansas law, saying bond should be granted for defendants charged with non-capital crimes.

Prosecutors said the case doesn’t qualify for the death penalty under Kansas law.

Sedgwick County District Judge Ben Burgess told The Wichita Eagle he had ordered Roeder held without bail “as a discretionary decision taking public safety into account.”

A hearing on the defense motion is scheduled for 9 a.m. Friday before District Judge Warren Wilbert.

The Eagle, in a story on its Web site, noted that Sedgwick County judges have granted bond in some capital cases over the past decade but have set bail so high that defendants could not afford it. For example, two brothers charged with killing five people during a 2000 crime rampage were held in lieu of $10 million bond.

Roeder has only scant resources, according to a financial affidavit he signed in requesting a court-appointed lawyer.

He listed $10 in a bank account and his 1993 Ford Taurus as his only property.

The affidavit listed total monthly bills of nearly $470, mostly for rent, and monthly pay of $1,100 working at Quicksilver Airport Delivery — his fourth job in the past six months. Other recent employment included stints at a convenience store in midtown Kansas City and another in nearby Shawnee, Kan.

Roeder’s public defender cited both the Kansas Constitution and a 1920 decision by the Kansas Supreme Court in requesting bond. In the court opinion, the justices wrote that in all but capital cases, “the admission to bail is a right which the accused can claim, and which no judge or court can properly refuse.”