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October 29th, 2017 
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Jurors believed that Shannon Kepler made a mistake and didn’t intend to kill his estranged daughter’s boyfriend “in cold blood,” the foreperson said of the jury’s choice to convict him of manslaughter in the former Tulsa police officer’s fourth murder trial.
The jury deliberated for about six hours on Oct. 18 before recommending that Kepler, 57, spend 15 years in prison and pay a $10,000 fine for killing 19-year-old Jeremey Lake in 2014. Kepler was on trial for murder for the fourth time in less than a year, as three previous juries had been unable to unanimously agree on a verdict.
In an interview with the Tulsa World on Wednesday, foreperson Sarah Arroyo said the jury determined that Kepler was guilty of a crime the night he shot Lake, who had just begun dating Kepler’s estranged daughter, Lisa Kepler. However, Arroyo said the group was not able to agree that prosecutors met all the legal elements required to prove that he committed first-degree murder.
“We kind of believed that because it was something that happened so close to home, he made a mistake,” Arroyo said of the killing, which she termed a “crime of passion rather than something in cold blood.”
“He was caught up, and we believed his background contributed to that a little bit, and (also) his home life and his career. He just let the situation get the best of him.”
Arroyo added that the jurors, who at one point were 9-3 in favor of a murder conviction, were “pretty grateful” to have a lesser-included offense as an option, saying “there’s a good chance it could have ended up with another hung jury” otherwise.
“There was just nothing that we could see that proved beyond a reasonable doubt that it was or was not self-defense,” she said. “Some of us had a hard time putting someone in prison for the rest of their life on conjecture.”
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