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October 16th, 2017 
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The teenager fatally shot by former Tulsa Police Officer Shannon Kepler in 2014 didn’t have a gun on or near him when officers began investigating the shooting, several law enforcement witnesses told a jury Friday.
Kepler, 57, is on trial for the fourth time on a first-degree murder charge in the Aug. 5, 2014, death of 19-year-old Jeremey Lake, who briefly dated Kepler’s estranged daughter, Lisa, after meeting her about a week before he died. Kepler’s previous trials on the same charge ended with mistrials due to hung juries in November, February and July.
Kepler has contended that he shot Lake twice in self-defense because he saw him carrying a gun, but a series of officers involved in the case against him each told jurors they didn’t recover a firearm at the crime scene, which was in the area of Lake’s aunt’s home in the 200 block of North Maybelle Avenue.
Three current or former Tulsa Police Department employees — Cpl. Amber McCarty, Michael Brown and Detective Mark Kennedy — also said Lisa Kepler identified her father as the person who shot Lake.
Brown, a former sergeant, said Lisa Kepler “came up to me screaming” at the shooting scene about Shannon Kepler’s involvement in the homicide, which made him “very surprised” based on his knowledge that Kepler was a longtime police officer.
None of them said they had any information to suggest that Lake handled a gun in any way the night he was shot.
Officer David Pyle, who testified Friday afternoon, described the scene as “chaotic” with “a lot of spectators” but also said he didn’t see a gun on Lake or Lake’s acquaintance Josh Mills, a witness Pyle transported to the Detective Division for an interview.
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