Clayton, MO (KTRS) The defendant in the Show-Me’s murder trial has taken a plea deal. Attorneys for Neal Myers agreed to plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter for the death of Scott Beary. The judge sentenced Myers to five years in prison. Defense attorneys said it’s likely Myers will spend anywhere from six months to two…
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — Jurors found a man guilty Friday of fatally shooting a St. Louis County police officer in 2016 after he talked on social media and in text messages about wanting to die in a “suicide by cop” encounter. The first-degree murder conviction will send Trenton Forster, 20, to life without the possibility…
The fate of 20-year-old Trenton Forster has been put into the hands of a jury Friday. Forster is charged with first degree murder in the shooting death of St. Louis County Police Officer Blake Snyder in 2016. Closing arguments took place Friday morning after the defense rested its case Thursday. The defense has stated that…
Clayton, MO (KTRS) Testimony continues today in day three of the murder trial for Trenton Forster. Tuesday’s testimony was emotional for the family of Officer Blake Snyder as autopsy photos were shown in the courtroom. Members of Snyder’s family cried and hugged one another during this testimony. Forster is charged in the 2016 shooting death of…
St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) The trial will get underway Monday morning for the man accused of killing St. Louis County Police Officer Blake Snyder. Twenty-year-old Trenton Forster is charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of the 33-year-old officer. Snyder was shot while responding to a disturbance call at a Green Park residence in…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A north St. Louis man awaits sentencing after being found guilty of a quadruple shooting that claimed the lives of three adults and critically injured a child. On Thursday, a jury found Jerome Leon Buress, Jr. guilty on several counts, including first-degree murder. In June of 2017, four people, including 7-year-old…
HOUSTON (AP) — A Jordanian immigrant was sentenced to death on Tuesday after being convicted in what Texas prosecutors described as the honor killings of his daughter’s American husband and her friend who was an Iranian women’s rights activist. Ali Mahwood-Awad Irsan was found guilty of capital murder last month in the 2012 fatal shootings…
By PAUL ELIAS, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Though the 2015 shooting death of Kate Steinle became a flashpoint in an intense national debate over immigration, the issue was never addressed inside the courtroom where a jury acquitted a Mexican national of murder and manslaughter — a verdict President Donald Trump called a “complete travesty…
Trial date set for next September in Pamela Hupp murder case St. Charles County, MO (KTRS) A new date for Pam Hupp’s murder trial has been scheduled after several delays. On Wednesday, a judge set a trial date for September 11th of 2018 after Hupp’s defense team requested more time to prepare. Hupp’s attorney say the…
St. Charles County, MO (KTRS) Lawyers for Pam Hupp will be in court today to ask for another delay in her murder trial. Hupp’s defense team claims that the prosecution hasn’t turned over all the evidence to them. The trial is scheduled for April. Hupp is charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Louis…