If there was a sliver of doubt after the jury returned a first-degree murder verdict against Kahlek McPherson Monday, McPherson himself removed it with a courtroom outburst admitting to the crime.
The jury’s verdict on three counts was still being read in Muskegon County Circuit Court Monday when McPherson unexpectedly stood up, turned to victim Corey Thompson’s family and pronounced “If he wasn’t such a bitch, I wouldn’t have shot him!”
That was counter to McPherson’s insistence on the stand Friday that he was innocent of the close-range shooting of Thompson in the city of Muskegon on July 4, 2018. Thompson, 44, was drinking a beer by himself on a family member’s front porch when he was shot in the head with a revolver sometime between 12:30-1 a.m.
Following McPherson’s outburst in court, a woman who was a close friend of Thompson’s and had testified during McPherson’s trial, stood and began shouting at McPherson and was removed from the court by deputies who handcuffed her in the hallway.
It wasn’t the first time McPherson had gone rogue in the courtroom. On Friday, he insisted on taking the witness stand against the advice of his attorney, Kevin Wistrom.
McPherson insisted under oath “there’s no reason for me to want to kill this man.”
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Defendant confesses to murder in court outburst as verdict is read
Kahlek McPherson was charged with murder in the July 4, 2018, shooting death of Corey Thompson in Muskegon.
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