ST. LOUIS – The man convicted of murdering a St. Louis police officer is set to be sentenced Thursday afternoon.
In May, a jury found Thomas Kinworthy guilty of murdering St. Louis police officer Tamarris Bohannon.
Back in August 2020, 29-year-old officer Tamarris Bohannan and his partner, Arlando Bailey, responded to a call for a shooting in the Tower Grove South neighborhood.
A couple who called 911 said while they were on the phone with a dispatcher,
Kinworthy entered their home, held them at gunpoint, and told them to hang up.
The couple escaped out a back door and talked with Officer Bohannon.
When Bohannon walked around to the front of the home, Kinworthy shot him in the head with a 9-millimeter handgun from a second-story window inside that couple’s house. Bohannon’s partner, Arlando Bailey, was shot in the leg and survived.
Police arrested Kinworthy after a nearly 12-hour standoff. Officer Bohannon died the next day. He had been on the force for more than three-and-a-half years.
And left behind a wife and three children.
On May 2, a jury convicted Kinworthy of murdering Officer Bohannon.
The jurors also found him guilty of wounding that other officer as well as a civilian. Bohannon’s family says it’s been a long and painful road to this day.
A conviction on a first-degree murder charge carries a mandatory term of life in prison. A judge is set to sentence Kinworthy at 1:30 p.m. Thursday afternoon at the civil courts building.