TULSA, Okla. -- For the third time in less than a year a jury deadlocked on Friday and forced a mistrial in the murder case of a white former Oklahoma police officer accused of killing his daughter's black boyfriend, astonishing prosecutors and frustrating the boyfriend's family.
Judge Sharon Holmes declared the mistrial after four hours of jury deliberations over the fate of former Tulsa police officer Shannon Kepler. He was accused of fatally shooting 19-year-old Jeremey Lake in August 2014, not long after Lake started dating Kepler's then-18-year-old daughter, Lisa.
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Kepler told investigators he was acting in self-defense because Lake was armed, but police didn't find a weapon on Lake or at the scene. Lake's aunt said her nephew was reaching out to shake Kepler's hand to introduce himself when Kepler fired.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/shannon...mey-lake/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6a&linkId=39540667
An early story:
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/crim...cle_18d43ac8-3feb-5230-bb2d-9af10860562d.html
Police say Jeremey Lake was killed Aug. 5 by Officer Shannon Kepler, who was arrested the following morning.
Lake, 19, was walking with his girlfriend — Kepler’s daughter Lisa — in the 200 block of North Maybelle Avenue when the off-duty officer pulled up in a black SUV and fired multiple shots, police say.
Two of those bullets struck Lake, who was pronounced dead at the scene. The teenager was struck once in the neck, on the right side just above the clavicle, and once in the right side of his chest, according to the report.
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Kepler, according to testimony given by police investigators during that bond hearing, had inside his home a report detailing a time Lake had been arrested while still a juvenile. On that report, police said, Kepler had hand-written Lake’s address, the home outside where he ultimately died.
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I assume there will be more snarky comments from conservatives instead of actually addressing this.