Late Officer Alton McGee's triangle love life
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this love triangle that he had gotten himself involved with after his divorce
from his estranged wife.
He thought that he could get away with dating two women who worked together at
the same school but that all backfired indeed. One found out about the other
and really let him have it which he really deserved.
McGee having physically abused is former wife got exactly what he deserved in
the end. What goes around comes around is what the old proverb is.
The man even had a child out of wedlock as the newspaper reporter had
confirmed, so therefore, this dead cop certainly wasn't a saint by any stretch
of the word, not to mention that he had a very hard time keeping his pants
zipped. Anytime Alton would see a woman walking down the street, all of a
sudden, his penis becomes hard and begins the throb.
Read below the news clipping:
New Orleans News
Ex-teacher guilty of killing boyfriend
Woman stabbed N.O. cop to death
05/18/02
By Gwen Filosa
Staff writer/The Times-Picayune
After nearly 2 ½ hours of deliberating, a jury Friday night convicted a former
schoolteacher of murder in the stabbing death of her police officer boyfriend
last summer.
Karen Gettridge-Turner, 40, will receive a mandatory life sentence for
second-degree murder in the killing of Alton McGee at his eastern New Orleans
home. The verdict was 10-2 for the murder charge. Prosecutors said they
believed, but weren't certain, that two jurors held out for a lesser charge of
manslaughter.
Gettridge-Turner burst into McGee's home at 7718 Reindeer Drive last summer
and, angered at finding him with her co-worker, plunged a steak knife into his
heart, prosecutors said.
Assistant District Attorneys Keva Landrum and Jonathan Friedman called the
verdict a fair one based solely on the facts. "You can't solve a bad
relationship with murder," Landrum said outside the courthouse.
Judge Frank Marullo read the verdict to a courtroom filled with spectators --
Gettridge-Turner's family on one side and McGee's on the other. Several members
of Gettridge-Turner's family sobbed uncontrollably as they left the building.
McGee, 32, was estranged from his wife, with whom he had a son. He had been
dating Gettridge-Turner for about six months. The two worked together at
Livingston Middle school, where she taught sixth grade and he was the school
resource officer.
Police arrived at McGee's home early in the morning of June 25, 2001, and found
Gettridge-Turner kneeling over his bleeding body. The woman who had been with
McGee earlier that night, Chanel Smith, testified that Gettridge-Turner had
kicked in the front door and said she was going to kill McGee.
"How could he do this to me?" Gettridge-Turner said after she broke in,
according to Smith. "After all I've done for him?"
While Smith said she didn't see McGee get stabbed, she said she walked into the
kitchen and found Gettridge-Turner striking a murderous pose over the police
officer. McGee, according to Smith, was grasping Gettridge-Turner's hand, which
held the knife.
Defense attorneys Robert Jenkins and David Belfield tried to defuse the state's
case by suggesting Smith had a grudge against Gettridge-Turner because of a
change of classroom assignments at Livingston, and that McGee may have bullied
Gettridge-Turner in the past.
While Smith's testimony was clearly the most damning of the trial, the defense
called McGee's widow, who didn't endorse their theory that Gettridge-Turner was
bullied by officer McGee.
Dannette McGee testified that her estranged husband had never been physically
abusive to her, despite the "domestic violence" petition she had filed in her
divorce papers. She got a restraining order on her attorney's advice to prevent
her husband from calling her and trying to coax her to take him back.
"He didn't want me to leave him," McGee said. "It was nothing confrontational."
The defense asked why Dannette McGee had sued Gettridge-Turner and Smith for
her husband's death.
"My husband was dead, he was my life. She had her own husband," Dannette McGee
replied, referring to Gettridge-Turner.
Until the trial began this week, the widow said, she didn't know what went on
that night on Reindeer Drive.
"I realize Karen Turner killed my husband," she said through tears. "My son has
to suffer for that. He doesn't have a daddy for the rest of his life."
McGee had another son from another relationship.
Marullo will formally sentence Gettridge-Turner on June 7.
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Dating two women justifies murder?