Local News in Missouri: A Missouri Prosecutor Seeks Justice for her Murdered Girlfriend and Son.

A prosecutor in Missouri intends to seek capital punishment against a man accused of killing and stabbing his girlfriend and her 13-year-old son on New Year’s Eve 2020 in an incident that also injured two other kids. The prosecutor intends to prove that Brandon King killed to avoid arrest.

Greene County Prosecutor Dan Patterson said in a legal filing that he intends to prove that 31-year-old Brandon King killed to avoid arrest and that the crimes targeted potential witnesses and were particularly brutal.

Later on, King told police he killed the victims because he was planning to flee the state to avoid prosecution in a forgery case and wanted to eliminate potential witnesses. He is charged with two counts of first-degree murder, assault, and child abuse for the attack, which also injured Plumb’s 7- and 14-year-old daughters, who were stabbed but survived the attack in the family’s west Springfield home. All of these elements make the case eligible for the death penalty under Missouri law.

James Hayes, King’s court-appointed legal representative, refrained from commenting on the state’s most recent submission on Friday. However, he mentioned that King’s medicine had altered on the day of the murders during the 2021 preliminary hearing (Carter, 2023).