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“She was angry at him, we can’t say with any certainty about what exactly she was angry about,” Logan County Assistant Prosecutor Alice Robinson-Bond said of the motive for the crime.
A phone call to defense attorney Tina McFall was not returned. A date for sentencing in the case hasn’t been set.
Sheriff’s deputies responded to the couple’s home in the 8000 block of Township Road 110 in Rushsylvania in March on a report of a shooting. When they arrived, Logan County Sheriff Randy Dodds said they found Gary Kennedy dead from a gunshot wound on the kitchen floor.
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Dodds said at the time he wondered if the shooting was a result of domestic violence but that wasn’t a defense used during the trial, Robinson-Bond said.
“That was not something that the defense brought up,” Bond said of domestic violence. “It was a husband and wife altercation.”
The trial lasted throughout last week. The jury was taken to the home and then listened to a few days of testimony before making their decision. At the end, it might have been Kennedy’s own words that prompted the conviction, Robinson-Bond said.
“I believe it was the evidence gathered by law enforcement at the crime scene plus the statements that Mrs. Kennedy made that contradicted each other,” Robinson-Bond said.
The assistant prosecutor declined to go into specifics about what comments were made.
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The conviction was an example of justice being served, Robinson-Bond said.
“I was satisfied on behalf of the family,” she said.
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