Posted on 09/03/2014 2:57:15 PM PDT by Mercat
The man suspected in Tuesdays triple homicide in Kansas City has been accused of murder before.
But in 2009, a Jackson County jury acquitted Brandon Howell of double murder charges in a high-profile case.
Now, five years later, Jackson County authorities say Howell is responsible for a shooting rampage in a quiet south Kansas City neighborhood.
Howell was charged Wednesday with three counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of Susan Choucroun, Darrel Hurst and Lorene Hurst, said Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker during a news conference. He was also charged with other counts related to Tuesday's shooting, including assault charges for the two other people shot in south Kansas City.
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He beat the owners of the “vintage jag”, an elderly couple, so badly that they are in the hospital in critical condition.
The youngest of the people he killed was a 63 year-old man who was visiting his 88 year-old mother, also killed. He then killed a 69 year-old woman. They were doing nothing but were in his line-of-sight, and each received a shotgun blast to the head.
Really depressing, and prayers for the families of the innocents.
LSAggie, posting on hubby’s account
Thanks for the correction. Thought that Nixon was going to impose a moratorium on executions. Looks like my original source was wrong.
With Sebelius as governor of Kansas, I would have expected that killers would go free and their victims would be convicted of being in the way of the robbers. Hopefully things will change.
Who controls the state legislature in Missouri? Reporting from that state during the Ferguson incident was often mixed at best, often wrong in many cases. I’m a Richard Ichord man - he was an old acquaintance and no-nonsense congressman regarding security and crime.
Capital punishment seems to be one of the few things both parties agree on here. Carnahan was a Democrat and I think there were 35 executions under his administration.
Who controls the state legislature in Missouri?
Republicans have both houses.
Very true. What surprises me, is that in this day and age of rampant PC, that they actually put his picture out publicly. That, by itself, is highly non PC.
I meant the use of it. We’ve been cowed into not using it as opposed to creating the means for its improved use. Firing squads or hanging would work better and be more public than our current wimpy way.
I don't think we have a reluctance to impose the death sentence in this country. What we do have is a legal system that allows appeal after appeal after appeal and which delays the imposition of the jury's verdict for decades. That's what needs to change.
Thanks. Wow, this guy was just gratuitously violent. Needs to be put away for the rest of his life.
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