Prosecutors file death penalty notice in Kentucky shooting
WINCHESTER, Ky. (AP) – Clark County prosecutors say they plan to seek the death penalty if four suspects in a woman’s shooting death are convicted at trial.
The Winchester Sun reports prosecutors notified Clark County Circuit Court during a status hearing last week.
Twenty-year-old Christopher Robinson is charged with murder, first-degree burglary and two counts of first-degree assault in the December 2014 shooting at a Winchester apartment complex.
Nineteen-year-old Lillian Barnett, 19-year-old Aaron Stailey and 21-year-old Lamont Wilkerson are indicted on charges of complicity to murder, burglary and assault.
Police say shots were fired when the four went to the apartment. A bullet went through the floor and into an apartment below, killing 19-year-old Amber Caudill.
The defendants are set for trial in May, although a motion is pending to try them separately.
