Ex-Oklahoma Officer Is Sentenced in Killing of Daughter’s Boyfriend
Shannon Kepler, who had served as a police officer in Tulsa for 24 years, was tried five times before a federal jury found him guilty of the 2014 murder of Jeremey Lake, 19.
10 January 2022
A former police officer in Tulsa, Okla., was sentenced on Friday to 25 years in prison for the 2014 killing of his daughter’s boyfriend after a jury found him guilty of second-degree murder in his fifth trial in the case. Shannon Kepler, 60, was a 24-year veteran of the Tulsa Police Department when he shot and killed Jeremey Lake, 19, outside Mr. Lake’s home near downtown Tulsa in August 2014, federal prosecutors said. Mr. Kepler tracked Mr. Lake down after running his name through a law enforcement database, the authorities said. At the request of Mr. Lake’s family, Judge Gregory ...
Ex-Oklahoma Officer Is Sentenced in Killing of Daughter’s Boyfriend
Shannon Kepler, who had served as a police officer in Tulsa for 24 years, was tried five times before a federal jury found him guilty of the 2014 murder of Jeremey Lake, 19.
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