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Kenneth Allen Keith​
Danville Police have arrested a man they say is in involved in the triple murder at a Danville business last month.

The suspect is 48-year-old Kenneth Allen Keith, a pastor at Main Street Baptist Church in Burnside, Ky.
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Keith is charged with three counts of Murder and one count of Robbery. He was lodged in the Pulaski County Detention Center where he awaits to be transferred to Boyle County.

Michael and Angela Hockensmith, and business client Daniel Smith were killed in a robbery at ABC Gold Games and More the morning of Sept. 20.

Police say there were two children in the building at the time: a 9-year-old boy and a 14-month-old girl. Neither were harmed. The 9-year-old was the one who called 911 after the shooting, police say.
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Several businesses and schools, including the Boyle County Courthouse, Boyle and Danville school systems, EKU Danville and Centre College were temporarily put on lockdown.
http://www.lex18.com/news/minister-arrested-in-danville-triple-murder-investigaton/
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Michael and Angela Hockensmith​
The family of a couple murdered along with a friend last month in their Boyle County business says they are grateful for an arrest in the case.
Kenneth Allen Keith, a Burnside pastor was arrested
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accused in the September shooting deaths of Mike Hockensmith, Angela Hockensmith, and Daniel Smith inside "ABC Gold, Games, and More" in Danville.

Keith lives in Pulaski County, where he operates his own pawn shop, "Gold Rush Gold Buyers" on Monticello Street in Somerset.
"This is beyond my comprehension. A man of the cloth doing this," Barbara Lewis, the mother of Mike Hockensmith
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"My son had preached recently at his church and I had been to the church several time before with him."
"We never would've thought it would be someone like this who'd do something like that. Especially in front of two small children. Children that he knew," said Duke Lewis, Mike's father.
Barbara Lewis said Mike Hockensmith worked for Keith before taking over the business where the shootings happened.
Lewis said Keith even introduced himself to her and the rest of the family at the funeral.
"It's really a shock that he would come to the funeral and introduce himself to me and tell me how much they were loved and him knowing what he'd done," Lewis said.

While Angela's mother, Charlne Worley feels blessed for an arrest in the case, she's not sure she considers it closure.
"Nothing will ever be closed because he took the life of my only child and my son-in-law, who was like a son to me," Worley
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Making the family even angrier, a post on Facebook by the murder suspect around the time of the killings: "No sleep at all. I am just in shock right now over this loss of three great people. We never know what is coming ..."
"I'd like for this man to know that we are praying for his salvation. He's gotta face God. Not me,"
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"Mr. Keith, I hope you turn your life over to God before it's too late because when you bow your knees to Jesus, you can't lie to him, 'cause he knows the truth. He knows it all," said Duke Lewis.
Family members of the Hockensmiths have planned a candlelight vigil to honor their lives.
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http://www.lex18.com/news/victims-family-reacts-to-minister-arrested-in-boyle-county-triple-murder/

Kentucky pastor 'murdered husband and wife then attended their funerals and offered his sympathies to grieving family'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-murdered-husband-wife-attended-funerals.html

Danville triple murder suspect appears in court
Nov 5 2013
Danville triple murder suspect Kenneth Keith was in court Tuesday morning.
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Keith, who was wearing a bullet-proof vest, entered a not guilty plea at his arraignment Tuesday.
A special-response team escorted him to and from the courthouse, and there was extra security inside the building.
He is being held without bond at the Boyle County Jail, and is due back in court next month.
http://www.wlky.com/news/local-news...22811526/-/k5m5yoz/-/index.html#ixzz2jomqJ3Sz


Auction to raise money for pawn shop victims' children
http://www.wlky.com/news/local-news...22792282/-/122bi7a/-/index.html#ixzz2jonNqbgC

Lewis said Keith even introduced himself to her and the rest of the family at the funeral.
"It's really a shock that he would come to the funeral and introduce himself to me and tell me how much they were loved and him knowing what he'd done," Lewis said.
^^^ Ive said before our murderer took part in the search ,slept on our couch babysat the kids etc
Very common according to police but it does make it worse
 
This one is near me. I was a bit uncomfortable until they got the guy. He was on the loose for quite a while after the murders.
 
I remember when I first read this being surprised it was a preacher who did this, I mean it's pretty kinda brutal ya know? Dude obviously had some fucking issues to not only murder these people but show up at the funeral and comfort the family like he isn't a murderous piece of shit. :mad:
 
Prosecutor to seek death penalty in pawn shop case

DANVILLE, Ky. —A central Kentucky prosecutor says he will seek the death penalty for a pastor accused of murdering three people at a Danville pawn shop in September.

The Lexington Herald-Leader reports Boyle County Commonwealth's Attorney Richie Bottoms filed notice Thursday that he will seek a death sentence against 48-year-old Kenneth Allen Keith of Burnside in Pulaski County. Keith has been in the Boyle County jail in Danville without bond since being charged Oct. 9.
http://www.wlky.com/news/local-news...seek-death-penalty-in-pawn-shop-case/24218722
 
I hope the jury that is assigned to this trial has the guts to send him to death roll without any hesitation or problems. There are so many instances where 11 of the 12 jurors were for the death penalty but the 12th juror felt sympathy for the defendant. Death is to good for him but with all the appeals and process it takes to finally hand it down he will have time to sit there for a while and think about his sorry ass is going to eventually pay.
 
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