Pemiscot County Prosecuting Attorney Steve Horton filed court documents on Monday, April 6th, stating his intention to seek the death penalty for two defendants in the Kaniah Jennings murder case.
On November 3rd, Jennings was reported missing and eleven days later, her body was found in Pemiscot County. Three men were arrested as a result of the investigation into her disappearance and death – Blake Patrick, Keenan Peoples and Donald Peoples, Jr. Horton will seek the death penalty against two of those individuals – Keenan Peoples and Blake Patrick.
Horton stated the “vile, horrible and inhumane” brutality of the crimes as reason to seek the death penalty.
Peoples is charged with first-degree murder, first-degree kidnapping, first-degree rape, and tampering with physical evidence in a felony prosecution.
Patrick is charged with felony accessory to murder first-degree, first-degree kidnapping, first-degree rape, first-degree tampering with a motor vehicle, two counts of stealing a firearm, and stealing more than $750.