{"id":79998,"date":"2018-06-15T10:05:57","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T15:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79998"},"modified":"2018-06-15T10:05:57","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T15:05:57","slug":"aaron-lee-pearson-faces-death-penalty-for-murdering-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79998","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Lee Pearson faces death penalty for murdering veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=79999\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-79999\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Aaron-Lee-Pearson-300x264.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"264\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-79999\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Aaron-Lee-Pearson-300x264.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Aaron-Lee-Pearson.jpg 306w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Top Kone sends <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewsenterprise.com\/news\/crime_and_courts\/state-seeks-death-penalty-in-homicide\/article_58e44fcb-95a7-53b9-b30a-bfb4b0891518.html\">a link to the news<\/a> that the District Attorney of Hardin County, Kentucky is seeking the death penalty for Aaron Lee Pearson because Pearson is suspected of murdering 71-year-old Norman Hall, a 22-year veteran of the Army, during a robbery;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hall died from multiple blows to his head and face and from being stabbed in the neck, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Pearson also was indicted on complicity to first-degree robbery and complicity to tampering with physical evidence charges.<\/p>\n<p>He is accused of taking an oxygen tank Hall used from the victim\u2019s residence and throwing it \u201cinto a rocky terrain in an effort to conceal it from police,\u201d according to his indictment.<\/p>\n<p>Hall was found after Radcliff Police De\u00adpart\u00adment officers performed a welfare check Sept. 9, 2016, after neighbors said Hall hadn\u2019t been seen for a few days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pearson&#8217;s partner in crime, Eloysia James-Venerable, 18, of Radcliff, is expected to testify in the trial, because there is no honor among thieves, apparently.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>James-Venerable, who was 16 when Hall was killed, accepted a plea deal in February that recommends she serve 20 to 50 years or life in prison, with parole eligibility after 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement also includes assurances she will testify against Pear\u00adson. Should James-Venerable not provide honest testimony, the commonwealth will remove the offer and she will be sentenced to life without parole.<\/p>\n<p>She was charged with complicity to commit murder; first-degree bur\u00adg\u00adlary; first-degree receiving stolen property \u2014 firearm; and tampering with physical evidence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Kone sends a link to the news that the District Attorney of Hardin County, Kentucky &hellip; <a title=\"Aaron Lee Pearson faces death penalty for murdering veteran\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79998\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Aaron Lee Pearson faces death penalty for murdering veteran<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}