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    Andrew Michael Wilson Gets Four Life Sentences in 2011 FL Double Murder


    John Robert McKenzie


    Patrick Lee Pittman


    Andrew Michael Wilson


    Opening arguments are set to begin for the murder trial for Andrew Michael Wilson.

    He's facing five charges in connection with the March 2011 murder of John Robert McKenzie, Patrick Lee Pittman and the attempted murder of Gabrielle McKenzie.

    If convicted Wilson could get the death penalty.

    http://www.wtxl.com/news/opening-arg...7a43b2370.html
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    Closing arguments underway in Wakulla double homicide

    The closing arguments in the double-murder and attempted-murder trial of Andrew Michael Wilson are underway.

    Jurors are listening to final arguments by state prosecutors and public defenders before they begin deliberations in the capital murder case.

    The state argues Wilson, 27, committed premeditated murder and should face the death penalty. His attorneys contend he committed the killings out of leashed rage and should be found guilty of second-degree murder, a lesser charge.

    Wilson is accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend Gabrielle McKenzie, who nearly died, and fatally stabbing her father John McKenzie and new boyfriend Patrick Pittman on March 30, 2011.

    Wilson, who is the father of Gabrielle McKenzie's then-1-year-old son, was arrested within hours of the attack after he crashed his car in front of a southwest Georgia deputy's house. Wilson told investigators he planned the killing, hiding his truck outside the McKenzie family's home, duct-taping plastic bags over his shoes and using a hidden key to get inside and ambush the three with a knife as they slept.

    Wilson said he stabbed 24-year-old Pittman first, then chased Gabrielle McKenzie down the narrow hall, stabbing her, too. Finally, he told investigators, he waited in a dark corner, and then attacked 62-year-old John McKenzie when he came out of his bedroom.

    http://www.tallahassee.com/story/new...cide/11069273/
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    Andrew Wilson to face the death penalty

    Andrew Michael Wilson was found guilty Friday by a Wakulla County jury on two counts of first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder.

    Jurors deliberated about four hours before convicting Wilson of the savage slaying of 24-year-old Patrick Pittman and John McKenzie, 62, and the near-killing of then-19-year-old Gabrielle McKenzie.

    McKenzie, who was in the courtroom, was calm as the verdicts were delivered, bowing her head when his conviction on charges he tried to kill her was read. A stone-faced Wilson showed little emotion. He waved as he was escorted by deputies from the courtroom.

    His public defenders declined to comment. Lead prosecutor, Assistant State Attorney Jon Fuchs, said McKenzie and the victim’s families were very pleased with the verdicts and that Wilson “is being held accountable for his actions on that particular night.”

    Wilson, who was Gabrielle McKenzie’s ex-boyfriend and the father of her 1-year-old son, ambushed the trio in the early-morning hours of March 30, 2011, as they slept in her father John’s single-wide trailer.

    After taping plastic bags over his shoes and donning black clothes and a headlamp, Wilson used a hidden key to enter the home at about 3:30 a.m. Wielding a six-inch bladed knife used for cutting air-duct material, he first attacked Pittman, who was Gabrielle McKenzie’s new boyfriend, as he slept on the living room couch.

    Gabrielle, awakened by Pittman’s screams, crept from her bed to not wake her son and saw Wilson, who then chased her down the narrow hall and repeatedly stabbed her. Her father came out of his room, yelled at Wilson to stop, and he turned on him.

    When Wilson heard Pittman calling for help, he attacked him a final time.

    During closing arguments Friday, Assistant State Attorney Jon Fuchs played again for jurors the chilling 911 call made by Pittman, during which he can be heard crying out “I’m dying,” screaming In terror and pain, as Wilson stabs him, yelling, “You are going to die in hell!”

    After the tape ended, Fuchs told the jury: “It doesn’t get any worse than that.”

    John McKenzie, who was beloved by his co-workers at St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge where he manned the fee booth, was stabbed 17 times. Pittman, who had known Gabrielle for three months, was stabbed 47 times. She nearly died from her injuries, which included more than a half-dozen wounds to her face, chest and neck.

    When deputies arrived at the scene, Wilson, who heard their sirens approaching, was gone, leaving everyone for dead. They found McKenzie’s toddler son standing in the doorway, unharmed, but crying and covered in blood.

    There was no dispute Wilson committed the heinous crimes, to which he confessed in detail hours after he fled the scene with four nearly severed fingers and crashed his Ford Explorer in front of a deputy’s house near Columbus, Ga. At issue was whether Wilson committed premeditated first-degree murder, as the state contended, or was driven by “unleashed emotion,” as his public defenders argued, and should have been found guilty of the lesser crime of second-degree murder.

    Wilson, 27, faces the death penalty for his first-degree crimes. The jury of six women and six men also found him guilty of his additional charges of burglary of a dwelling with assault and violating a domestic-violence protection order.

    Five weeks before the attack, Gabrielle McKenzie had been granted the order against Wilson, whom she had dated for more than a year, forbidding him to have contact with her or their son. Wilson, who became possessive and jealous after she became pregnant, had grown increasingly erratic after she broke up with him in January 2011, and refused to accept the idea that their relationship was over. He threatened many times to kill her if she “cheated” on him and vowed to “slit the (expletive) throat” of any new boyfriend.

    He also resented her close relationship with her father, whom she talked to every day and considered her best friend.

    Fuchs said Wilson had two primary motives for the killings — jealousy and getting his son.

    “One of the primary reasons he went to that house was to take his son and to do revenge,” he said. “The anger and jealousy reached a tipping point and he decided to take action.”

    In a voicemail message left for a friend less than an hour after the crime, Wilson explained how he cut himself badly when he was “killing the boyfriend” so he wasn’t able to take his son with him.

    Assistant Public Defender Steve Been disagreed. He suggested during his closing arguments, Wilson may have wanted to simply see his son, and took efforts to conceal his presence so he wouldn’t be caught violating the protection order. When he entered the house and saw Pittman, Wilson may have snapped.

    “He sees the man who, in his irrational and immature brain, stole his girlfriend sleeping on the couch. That could have provoked an explosion of rage right there and lead to everything that happened,” Been said. “It’s terrible what he did, but sometimes people do terrible things without thinking about it.”

    Fuchs, however, contended Wilson set out that night to kill, drinking beer to give him “liquid courage” and taking three amphetamine pills to hype himself up.

    “Mr. Wilson knew the entire night what he was going to do,” he said. “He went over there with the intent to kill every person there and take his kid.”

    At the end of his closing arguments, Fuchs re-enacted for the jury Wilson’s actions that night. He used electrical tape to secure plastic grocery bags around his shoes, as Wilson did when he said he decided to kill Pittman and John McKenzie and pulled off the road to prepare. Fuchs put on a headlamp, like the one Wilson wore. He pulled out of his tool bag a knife similar to the duct knife.

    Fuchs described how Wilson then drove to the McKenzie home, hid his car, walked through the woods and sneaked into the house. Fuchs stood above a felt mannequin laying on the witness stand, staring at it for 20 seconds, as long as Wilson said he looked down at Pittman sleeping.

    “And when those 20 second are up, he does exactly what he said he was going to a month-and-a-half ago,” Fuchs told the jury.

    He slit the throat of the dummy and began stabbing it over and over again.

    Fuchs played out the entire horrific scene, brandishing the knife as he moved around the courtroom as Wilson did in the trailer, showing how he next went after Gabrielle, then her father and attacked Pittman again, stabbing him again and again in the back and head, chipping his skull, in one final round of fury.

    Jurors will return next week to hear additional testimony in the penalty phase of the trial and recommend Wilson’s sentence to Circuit Court Judge Charles Dodson. Fuchs said the victims’ family members want Wilson to be put to death.


    http://www.tallahassee.com/story/new...alty/11203589/
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    Sentencing for Andrew Wilson in the Wakulla Double Murder Trial

    Update
    By: Lanetra Bennett
    June 23, 2013
    4:22p.m.

    The sentencing of Andrew Wilson has been adjourned for the day.

    Update
    By: Lanetra Bennett
    June 23, 2013
    2:02 p.m.

    Gabrielle McKenzie is now on the stand. She is the mother of Andrew Wilson's son.

    In her victim impact statement, Mckenzie talks about the pain of losing her dad, John Mckenzie, who as killed by Wilson.

    She says she feels "anchorless" without him. Her mom died in 2005 and she says her dad made sure she had everything she needed.

    Her dad was killed three days after her son's first birthday.

    The defense is also taking this time to re-question Mckenzie about Wilson and the case.

    Update
    By: Lanetra Bennett
    June 23, 2013
    12:53 p.m.

    Patrick Pittman's cousin, Mandy Ferrell, is now on the stand giving her impact statement.

    She says Pittman being killed by Wilson devastated the family. She said her first cousin never met a stranger. His dream was to become a mixed martial artist and one day open his own gym.

    By: Lanetra Bennett
    June 23, 2013
    12:30 p.m.

    The sentencing phase for Andrew Wilson is underway in the Wakulla County Courthouse.

    Wilson was convicted Friday on two counts of first degree murder and one count if attempted murder.

    The jury now had to decide if Wilson should get the death penalty or life in prison.

    In opening statements this morning, prosecutors said they plan to allow impact statements during the hearing today.

    The defense says Wilson's mom was on drugs when she had him and says he had an unstable childhood. The defense attorney says Wilson's parents and sister and other family members are bi-polar. He also says after Wilson and his girlfriend split up in 2011, he used drugs and alcohol more and his erratic mood swings worsened.

    The defense says Wilson could not be thinking rationally the night of the murders.

    http://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/264290711.html
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    Sentencing for Andrew Wilson expected today

    Sentencing for Andrew Wilson, who was convicted of double murder last Friday, is expected to wrap up today in Wakulla County.

    Wilson was found guilty by a jury of six men and six women for the 2011 rampage where he stabbed and killed his ex-girlfriend's father, John McKenzie, and new boyfriend, Patrick Pittman, and attempted to kill Gabrielle McKenzie.

    Wilson taped bags to his shoes and donned a headlamp before entering the Wakulla home with a hidden key. Jurors got to hear the chilling 911 call last Friday where one of Wilson's victims could be heard crying "I'm dying," as Wilson continued to stab him.

    Wilson stabbed Pittman 47 times and John McKenzie was stabbed 17 times.

    McKenzie suffered multiple stab wounds before Wilson fled the home. He was found guilty of attempted first-degree murder for the attack on her.

    Wilson could be sentenced to death today.

    We have a reporter in the Wakulla County courtroom and will have updates throughout the day including the sentencing at Tallahassee.com.

    http://www.tallahassee.com/story/new...oday/11450947/
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    Andrew Wilson sentenced to life in prison

    Andrew Michael Wilson was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole for a May 2011 rampage where he stabbed and killed his ex-girlfriend's father, John McKenzie, and new boyfriend, Patrick Pittman, and attempted to kill Gabrielle McKenzie.

    Wakulla Circuit Judge Charles Dodson will impose the sentence for the double-homicide. Judges typically follow jury recommendations in such cases.

    Prosecutors painted a grizzly picture Friday of Wilson, 27, as a convicted murderer who planned his attack.

    Assistant State Attorney Eddie Evans asked the jury to recommend the death penalty for Wilson on his conviction on two counts of first-degree murder June 20. The jury returned with the life-in-prison sentence recommendation on both counts. Wilson also faces life in prison for the attempted murder of Gabrielle McKenzie.

    Wilson's actions were cold and calculated Evans said.

    "He used a knife," Evans told jurors. "The most personal device. He entered that home with the intent to kill."

    In emotional closing statements, Gabrielle McKenzie ran from the courtroom crying when prosecutors showed a photo of Pittman and held the knife used to kill him.

    Wilson was found guilty last week by a jury of six men and six women. The same jurors, after a week of testimony from prosecutors and defense attorneys, delivered the verdict Friday.

    May 30, 2011, Wilson taped bags to his shoes and donned a headlamp before entering the Wakulla home with a hidden key, ambushing the trio as they slept in John McKenzie's trailer.

    Jurors heard the chilling 911 call where Pittman could be heard crying "I'm dying," to dispatchers as Wilson continued to stab him.

    Wilson stabbed Pittman 47 times and John McKenzie was stabbed 17 times. Gabrielle McKenzie suffered multiple stab wounds before Wilson fled the home.

    He was arrested in Columbus, Ga., when he crashed his Ford Explorer in front of a deputy's house, covered in blood with four fingers nearly severed in the struggle.

    Prosecutors ended their closing statements in Friday's sentencing phase of the trial with the 911 call from Pittman.

    "He wants Patrick Pittman to know why he's dying," Evans said. "Because he wronged Mr. Wilson."

    They also played a minutes-long simulated recording of someone walking with bags on their shoes.

    "That's a long time to think," Evans said to a quiet courtroom. "The evidence as a whole shows it was premeditated, not off-the-cuff."

    Assistant Public Defender Andy Thomas told jurors Wilson's tumultuous childhood and a disposition toward bipolar disease along with amphetamine and alcohol use on the night of the murders put him in a state of "substance abuse-induced mania," and that the murders were not premeditated.

    "There is no way this man sat around and schemed he was going to go into this house and kill these people and then do it that way," Thomas said.

    Wilson testified he drank more than a 12-pack of beer while playing cards the night of the crime and had taken three to four 30 milligram time-release Adderalls.

    In an interview with Columbus sheriff's deputies, Wilson said he had never taken the stimulant, but "it made me do things. I wasn't myself. If I'd been myself, this wouldn't have happened."

    Thomas said the medication triggered the bipolar disorder and tried to discredit the testimony of doctors. Only one of three who testified labeled Wilson as bipolar.

    "Look at the science. Use your common sense," Thomas told the jury in his closing statements. "His brain is compromised. He's at a deficit," adding that an amphetamine overdose could have exacerbated latent mental dispositions.

    The defense also tried to show that Wilson's childhood left him unable to cope with stresses in a normal way. Instead, Wilson turned to self-medicating with marijuana and alcohol.

    Wilson was also convicted on charges of burglary of a dwelling with assault and violating a domestic-violence protection order.

    After that order was issued five weeks prior to the murders, Wilson and Gabrielle McKenzie argued over visitation rights for their 1-year-old son Lane, whom he was forbidden from seeing.

    The couple broke up in January 2011 and Wilson threatened many times to kill her and any new boyfriends she took on.

    In the interview in Columbus, Wilson was clearly upset that Pittman was dating Gabrielle McKenzie.

    Defense attorneys pointed to a parallel between abandonment issues Wilson experienced as a child –he hadn't seen his biological father since he was 5 — and Pittman now with his own son.

    "What's he thinking when he sees he's being replaced?" Thomas asked.

    Several psychiatric evaluations of Wilson's family members showing bipolar disease, including his mother and father, were introduced as evidence. Defense attorney's told jurors childhood turmoil and the loss of his first true love and his son were the tipping point.

    "Mr. Wilson did not know that his brain had been changed, twice," Thomas said.

    But prosecutors said Wilson's mental anguish, leading up to the violent attack was self-induced.

    "The defendant created that," Evans said. "This was not some outside influence. This is Mr. Wilson creating that influence."

    The defense urged the jury to consider a lesser sentence.

    "You cannot bring the victims back, I wish we could," Thomas said. "But we can save one by looking at the picture as a whole."

    http://www.tallahassee.com/story/new...ders/11563059/
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    Sentencing today in Andrew Wilson case

    Convicted murderer is still facing the death penalty when he goes before a judge this afternoon.

    A Wakulla County judge will sentence Andrew Wilson at 1:15 p.m. Tuesday for the March 2011 attempted murder of his estranged girlfriend, Gabrielle McKenzie, and the stabbing deaths of her father, John McKenzie, and her then new boyfriend Patrick Pittman.

    In June a jury recommended Wilson be sentenced to life in prison without the possibly of parole.

    While judges typically follow the jury's recommendation, it will ultimately be up to Judge Charles Dodson.

    http://www.wtxl.com/news/sentencing-...a4bcf6878.html
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    Florida Panhandle man gets life for stabbing ex-girlfriend, killing her new boyfriend, father

    By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    CRAWFORDVILLE, Florida — A Florida Panhandle man has been sentenced to life in prison for attacking his ex-girlfriend with a knife and killing her father and new boyfriend.

    A Wakulla County judge gave 27-year-old Andrew Michael Wilson four life sentences Tuesday. A jury in June convicted him of two counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder. The same panel later recommended life in prison, rather than the death penalty.

    One night in March 2011, authorities say Wilson sneaked into the singlewide trailer of his ex-girlfriend's father. That's where he fatally stabbed 62-year-old John McKenzie and 24-year-old Patrick Pittman. Then-19-year-old Gabrielle McKenzie — the mother of Wilson's infant son — was stabbed multiple times but survived.

    The Tallahassee Democrat (http://goo.gl/x85tNh) reports that Wilson was arrested within hours of the attack after he crashed his car in front of a southwest Georgia deputy's house.

    http://www.greenfieldreporter.com/vi...Fatal-Stabbing

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