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TULSA, Okla. – The Latest on the fourth murder trial of a white former Oklahoma police officer charged with killing his daughter’s black boyfriend (all times local):
11:45 p.m.
A white former Oklahoma police officer has been convicted of first-degree manslaughter in his fourth trial for the 2014 fatal shooting of his daughter’s black boyfriend.
Jurors reached a verdict for a lesser charge late Wednesday in ex-Tulsa officer Shannon Kepler’s first-degree murder trial.
Kepler was off-duty when he shot 19-year-old Jeremey Lake. He told investigators he fired because he thought Lake had a gun, but police found no weapon at the scene or on Lake.
Kepler said he was trying to protect his daughter, Lisa Kepler, because she was living in a crime-ridden neighborhood.
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