ST. LOUIS — A person was convicted Wednesday of killing a retired St. Louis police captain in 2020 throughout an evening of violence and looting sparked by racial injustice protests.
Stephan Cannon, of Glasgow Village, was discovered responsible of first-degree homicide within the dying of retired Capt. David Dorn, 77, who was shot when he investigated alarms going off at a good friend’s pawn store.
Cannon, 26, was additionally discovered responsible of first-degree theft, first-degree housebreaking and three counts of armed legal motion. He faces a compulsory time period of life in jail with out parole when he’s sentenced Sept. 13.
Dorn was killed June 2, 2020, when he approached the pawn store in north St. Louis and fired off warning pictures to cease looters who had been ransacking the enterprise.
His dying drew consideration nationwide as a result of it occurred amid protests throughout the nation in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.
Throughout St. Louis that evening, Dorn and 4 officers had been shot, officers had been pelted with rocks and fireworks, and 55 companies had been burglarized or broken.
Prosecutors argued that Cannon deliberated his actions when he walked to a nook close to the pawn store and fired 10 pictures at Dorn.
Cannon’s attorneys argued the state had not offered any bodily proof to hyperlink him to the taking pictures and primarily based their case largely on testimony from an unreliable witness, the St. Louis Publish-Dispatch reported.
The lead prosecutor, Marvin Teer, advised jurors Wednesday that Cannon deliberated earlier than he shot “an excellent man who devoted his complete life to doing nothing however serving to others.”
Cannon’s lawyer, Brian Horneyer, mentioned in his closing argument that police had “tunnel imaginative and prescient” after they charged Cannon with none bodily proof. He additionally mentioned the state’s major witness, Mark Jackson, lied to police a number of occasions in regards to the taking pictures after which made a deal to testify towards Cannon.
Cannon didn’t testify through the three-day trial.
Dorn retired from St. Louis police in 2007 after 38 years and in addition served for six years as police chief in Moline Acres.