Witness testifies seeing defendant beat, shoot parole officer in Midwest City murder case
Oklahoma County prosecutors said Friday they will seek the death penalty for a man accused of killing a parole officer with the officer's gun, after a judge decided there is probable cause for Lester Kinchion Jr. to face trial.
Kinchion, 21, of Midwest City, is charged with first-degree murder in the May 18 shooting death of Jeffery Matthew McCoy, 32, of Norman.
Kinchion also is charged with one count of shooting with intent to kill and one count of pointing a firearm at another. He is accused of shooting at a Midwest City police officer and pointing McCoy's gun at a woman who witnessed the attack.
McCoy, a parole and probation officer with the state Corrections Department, was killed at a Midwest City residence when he arrived for a meeting with another man.
Kinchion attacked McCoy when he arrived, police said.
A neighbor testified Friday at Kinchion's preliminary hearing that she saw Kinchion, who is black, beat a white male unconscious and then shoot him once in the head.
The neighbor, Courtney Humphrey, of Midwest City, testified that she saw two men fighting in the street, and the man she identified as Kinchion standing over the officer, punching him in the face.
“He was limp and lying on the ground ... with a gun pointed at his head,” Humphrey recounted on the witness stand Friday. “And then he shot him in the head.”
Family and friends of the victim, including his parents and wife, packed the courtroom of Special Judge D. Fred Doak, who set a Dec. 7 date for Kinchion to be formally arraigned.
Doak is expected to order the defendant to trial and prosecutors indicated they plan to file a Bill of Particulars requesting Kinchion be put to death.
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