Chaney pleads guilty in fatal 2011 shooting
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JACKSON, Tenn. — A Jackson man supposed to go on trial Tuesday for the shooting death of his girlfriend pleads guilty. Tray Chaney entered a guilty plea to the Madison County Circuit Court in the shooting death of 18-year-old Daphne Kenner in October 2011. Chaney is accused of using his car to run into the vehicle of Kenner, his estranged girlfriend. Police said she pulled into the parking lot of an apartment complex on Old Hickory Boulevard when Chaney got out and shot Kenner and her 21-year-old passenger. Police say Kenner died at the scene, and the passenger survived. After the shooting, police say Chaney ran to a nearby neighborhood where he stole a car. Police spotted Chaney speeding away and followed him back to his mother’s house where shots were fired, grazing Chaney’s head. According to court documents, Chaney’s first-degree murder charge was reduced to a second-degree murder charge. Chaney will be sentenced to serve 40 years but will get credit for time served.
