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Authorities say the shooting stemmed from nothing
After Rakayo A. Vinson, 24, bumped shoulders with someone in the bar, a fight broke out between him and a group of people, according to details Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth and Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley shared Monday. Vinson was punched in the face during the altercation.
After the fight, Vinson was taken aside by the tavern owner to calm him down. Once that conversation ended, Vinson returned to the group and began shooting, officials said. He fatally shot three of the friends.
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Lee
Lamar Lee, 40, of Kenosha, was charged Friday in Kenosha County Circuit Court with attempted first-degree homicide, endangering safety by reckless use of a firearm and carrying a concealed weapon.
According to the criminal complaint, Lee had sold a car speaker to a coworker at a Racine delivery service and the two got into a dispute on Wednesday because the coworker who purchased it said the speaker did not work.
Both Lee and his coworker, a 50-year-old Racine man, agree that at about 11 p.m. on Wednesday, after they had left work, they were both driving in their vehicles when at about 11 p.m. they stopped near the intersection of Highway H (88th Avenue) and Seventh Street (Highway A) in Somers.
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More than 19 years after he first appeared in court on charges that he murdered his wife, Jensen was â virtually â back in front of a judge Thursday after the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled in March that Jensen deserves a new trial and that a âvoice from the graveâ letter and incriminating statements from his wife Julie Jensen cannot be used by the prosecution.
Kenosha County Circuit Court Judge Chad Kerkman vacated Jensenâs conviction and reinstated his bond.
Jensen appeared through video conferencing from Dodge Correctional Institution in Waupun, where he has been imprisoned since 2008.
Jensen was originally charged in February 2002 for the death of his wife Julie in 1998. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in 2008, prosecutors convincing a jury during a six-week trial that Jensen poisoned his wife with antifreeze and then suffocating her at their Pleasant Prairie home.
Poisoning death conviction vacated, man heads back to trial
April 9, 2021
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KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) A judge has vacated the conviction of a man who is heading back to trial in Kenosha County on charges of killing his wife with antifreeze.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled last month that Mark Jensen deserves a new trial in the 1998 death of his wife Julie Jensen. The high court ruled a letter Jensen s wife wrote incriminating him in the event something should happen to her cannot be used by the prosecution.
Jensen has maintained his innocence with his attorneys arguing that Julie Jensen was depressed and killed herself after framing her husband.