Hannah Payne, a 25-year-old woman, has been found guilty of all charges in the death of 62-year-old Kenneth Herring. The jury found Payne guilty of felony murder, malice murder, aggravated assault, false imprisonment, and three charges of weapons possession during a crime. Payne was found guilty after chasing down and killing Herring after he fled from a car accident she had witnessed. The verdict took only two hours for the jury to reach, and her sentencing is expected to be 10 a.m. Friday. The family of 62-year-old Kenneth Herring has been waiting four years for this day, and his sisters were emotional after hearing the verdict. Vicky Herring, his youngest sister, said the state did its job and the jury did its job.
Hannah Payne, a woman accused of shooting and killing 62-year-old Kenneth Herring, has taken the stand in her own defense. Prosecutors accuse Payne of playing cop in 2019 when they say she followed Herring after he left the scene of a crash she was not directly involved in. They say Payne cut him off and eventually shot him. Nigel Hunter, a Clayton County Assistant District Attorney, said that you don’t get the death penalty for committing a traffic infraction.
Throughout the trial, jurors heard a lot, including 911 calls and Payne’s interview with police, among other things. They also heard from witnesses and from Payne herself. The defense says Payne acted in self-defense because after confronting Herring, she claims he started attacking her. Tucker says Payne was just trying to help out after witnessing a crash. “In her mind, she was a young individual trying to help out,” Tucker said. “No good deed goes unpunished.”
During Tucker’s closing argument, he went back through every witness who took the stand in hopes of getting the jury to reach a verdict in favor of his client. He said, “This is not some killer, this is not some murder,” Tucker said. “She’s some young girl who got caught up in the wrong situation.”
Payne took the stand in her own defense on the fourth day in the murder trial of a woman accused of shooting and killing a man who drove away from a crash. She told Tucker there was a state officer present at the initial crash that she was a witness of. She claimed that the officer told her and another witness at the scene outright that Herring was inebriated. At some point, Payne said Herring started revving his engine and pulling away from the scene of the initial crash. She testified that at the time, she was on the phone with a 911 dispatcher who asked if she had been able to grab his tag number. She said when she realized she hadn’t, and thought no one else did either, she got in her car.
Last week, jurors were able to hear a recording of the two 911 calls that Payne made during the incident. In one recording, the dispatcher asked, “OK, so you couldn’t get a tag number?” Payne responded, “No, but I’m catching up to him right now.” The dispatcher responded, “OK, ma’am we actually do not want you to chase him, we just want you to be safe.”
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During Monday’s testimony, Payne continuously stated that she wasn’t following Herring, but rather staying behind him to give the dispatcher a play-by-play of what he was doing and where he was, in order to help them find him when they got to the scene.
Breaking-GUILTY OF ALL CHARGES: In 2019, Hannah Payne shot and killed 62-year-old Kenneth Herring after following him from a car accident when told not to by 911. After Payne got out of the car, she shot Herring in his car during a “scuffle” by Forest Park parkway and Riverdale Road a few exits away from Old National by Atlanta, GA. Hannah Payne has been convicted on all charges in the death of 62-year-old Kenneth Herring. Sentencing will be 12/15/2023 (this Friday). Payne said she followed Herring because she believes he was “intoxicated” and his family states that they believe he was “going to the hospital due to a diabetic episode”…….Thanks for reading from Ghsplash a news publishing website from Ghana. Share this article, For spelling mistakes and other related issues contact us
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