Former Tulsa Police Officer Convicted Of Killing Daughter s Boyfriend To Appear In Court
Former Tulsa Police Officer Shannon Kepler is back in court Monday after he was released under the McGirt ruling in March. He is convicted of shooting and killing his daughter’s teenage boyfriend in 2014.
This will be his fifth trial since 2014 but this date only comes after his lengthy motion to postpone today’s start date by no more than 60 days was denied by a judge.
Kepler was originally convicted by a jury of first-degree murder, but that was eventually downgraded in a later trial to a first-degree manslaughter charge in 2017. He was then sentenced to a 15-year prison sentence, but he recently appealed that conviction last year on the grounds that he was tried in the wrong jurisdiction based on the U.S. Supreme Court’s McGirt ruling last year. Kepler claimed to be a fraction of Native American descent and the court found that to be true.