The second murder trial of a former Tulsa police officer in the shooting death of his daughter's boyfriend is being delayed after the judge said she was "blindsided" that she wasn't told about possible evidence in the case being wrongly released to a witness.
Judge Sharon Holmes halted jury selection Wednesday and ordered both sides to return to court Thursday in the trial of Shannon Kepler, who has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the 2014 shooting death of 19-year-old Jeremey Lake, the boyfriend of Kepler's daughter, Lisa Kepler.
Holmes learned Wednesday that a small bag found in Lake's possession was mistakenly released to Lisa Kepler when she went to police headquarters to retrieve her Oklahoma identification card and other items that Lake was carrying when he was shot.