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Otis Tyrone McKane, accused of killing SAPD Det. Benjamin Marconi, answers questions on Monday, Dec. 5, 2016, during an interview at the Bexar County Jail.
Otis Tyrone McKane, accused of killing SAPD Det. Benjamin Marconi, answers questions on Monday, Dec. 5, 2016, during an interview at the Bexar County Jail.
Otis Tyrone McKane, accused of killing SAPD Det. Benjamin Marconi, answers questions on Monday, Dec. 5, 2016, during an interview at the Bexar County Jail.
Otis Tyrone McKane, accused of killing SAPD Det. Benjamin Marconi, answers questions on Monday, Dec. 5, 2016, during an interview at the Bexar County Jail.
Otis Tyrone McKane, accused of killing SAPD Det. Benjamin Marconi, answers questions on Monday, Dec. 5, 2016, during an interview at the Bexar County Jail.
Otis Tyrone McKane, accused of killing SAPD Det. Benjamin Marconi, answers questions on Monday, Dec. 5, 2016, during an interview at the Bexar County Jail.
Otis Tyrone McKane, accused of killing SAPD Det. Benjamin Marconi, answers questions on Monday, Dec. 5, 2016, during an interview at the Bexar County Jail.
Otis Tyrone McKane, accused of killing SAPD Det. Benjamin Marconi, answers questions on Monday, Dec. 5, 2016, during an interview at the Bexar County Jail.
Otis Tyrone McKane, accused of killing SAPD Det. Benjamin Marconi, answers questions on Monday, Dec. 5, 2016, during an interview at the Bexar County Jail.
Otis Tyrone McKane, accused of killing SAPD Det. Benjamin Marconi, answers questions on Monday, Dec. 5, 2016, during an interview at the Bexar County Jail.
Otis Tyrone McKane, accused of killing SAPD Det. Benjamin Marconi, answers questions on Monday, Dec. 5, 2016, during an interview at the Bexar County Jail.
Otis Tyrone McKane, accused of killing SAPD Det. Benjamin Marconi, answers questions on Monday, Dec. 5, 2016, during an interview at the Bexar County Jail.
Otis Tyrone McKane, accused of killing SAPD Det. Benjamin Marconi, answers questions on Monday, Dec. 5, 2016, during an interview at the Bexar County Jail.
Otis Tyrone McKane, accused of killing SAPD Det. Benjamin Marconi, answers questions on Monday, Dec. 5, 2016, during an interview at the Bexar County Jail.
Otis Tyrone McKane, accused of killing SAPD Det. Benjamin Marconi, answers questions on Monday, Dec. 5, 2016, during an interview at the Bexar County Jail.
Otis Tyrone McKane, accused of killing SAPD Det. Benjamin Marconi, answers questions on Monday, Dec. 5, 2016, during an interview at the Bexar County Jail.
Otis Tyrone McKane, accused of killing SAPD Det. Benjamin Marconi, answers questions on Monday, Dec. 5, 2016, during an interview at the Bexar County Jail.
Otis Tyrone McKane, accused of killing SAPD Det. Benjamin Marconi, answers questions on Monday, Dec. 5, 2016, during an interview at the Bexar County Jail.
Otis Tyrone McKane, accused of killing SAPD Det. Benjamin Marconi, answers questions on Monday, Dec. 5, 2016, during an interview at the Bexar County Jail.
Otis Tyrone McKane, accused of killing SAPD Det. Benjamin Marconi, answers questions on Monday, Dec. 5, 2016, during an interview at the Bexar County Jail.
A Bexar County grand jury on Tuesday indicted the man held on a capital murder charge in the killing of a police detective in November .
San Antonio Police Det. Benjamin Marconi was working patrol on an overtime shift on the Sunday morning of Nov. 20, had pulled over a motorist and was processing a citation in his patrol car outside San Antonio Public Safety Headquarters when he was shot twice, including in the head.
Otis Tyrone McKane, 31, was seen on surveillance video hanging around headquarters that day, and again on video the next day entering the Bexar County Courthouse, where he was married. He was arrested 28 hours after the slaying.
Officials believe McKane randomly target Marconi, a 20-year veteran of the force. He told reporters after his arrest that he was upset by a child custody dispute and “lashed out at someone who didn’t deserve it.”
Marconi, 50, was active in the community and beloved by family and friends. Thousands attended his funeral.
McKane has remained in custody since his arrest. The indictment alleges he “intentionally and knowingly” caused Marconi’s death and that he knew Marconi was a police officer.
Capital murder is punishable by life in prison without parole, or death by injection. Bexar County District Attorney Nicholas “Nico” LaHood’s office said Tuesday he would comment once he has decided whether to seek the death penalty.
In 2015, a jury sentenced convicted cop killer Mark Anthony Gonzalez to death for killing Bexar County Sheriff’s Sgt. Kenneth Vann on May 28, 2011. Gonzalez pulled up next to Vann’s patrol car at a stoplight and shot him 26 times, nearly decapitating him, on Rigsby Avenue and Loop 410 on the East Side.
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