The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office launched closing week that 61-year-old Harold Luster of Extreme Ridge, Missouri was charged with first diploma murder and armed jail movement inside the demise of Kevin Ward, his 26-year-old son. Luster entered a not accountable plea closing week.

The incident went down on December twenty fourth, Christmas Eve, at Luster’s home, whereas Ward and his fiancée had been visiting from St. Louis.

The sufferer’s fiancée, per potential set off paperwork by means of the Photo voltaic Herald, suggested deputies she was in a disagreement with Luster over accusations the particular person’s affiliate — who’s Ward’s mother — was dishonest. Luster allegedly felt his son’s fiancée was “withholding information” from him and requested, “Do you wanna get shot?”

After Ward suggested her to run, she talked about she heard her fiancé inform his father, “You aren’t going to shoot her,” sooner than Luster responded, “You wanna get shot in its place?” She talked about she then observed Luster elevate his arm whereas holding one factor that regarded like a gun, sooner than firing a single shot at his son’s forehead, sending Ward to the underside.

Surveillance footage from a close-by home moreover allegedly confirmed the capturing, with a visible muzzle flash sooner than the sufferer collapsed.

Speaking with KSDK, Katherine Ward — Kevin’s mother and the lady Luster accused of dishonest —  talked about she was anticipating her son and his girlfriend to come back again to her place for Christmas. She suggested the outlet the two had been moreover anticipating a toddler on the time of his demise — alongside together with his fiancée due in June.

“Kevin was my go to explicit particular person,” she talked about. “My son was the proper. He was an incredible little one that didn’t deserve that night time time and I need 1,000 cases he under no circumstances went down there. Nonetheless me and him under no circumstances would have thought this is ready to ever happen. It’s nearly like I’m in a nightmare and I can’t get out.”

“A senseless act took my little one away from me. I’ll under no circumstances see him stroll via my door and say ‘mom’, I can’t have birthdays, Christmases,” she continued, in tears. “I have to sit there and keep his little one for the first time because of he won’t be succesful to.”

In accordance with Katherine, Luster and one different member of the household had been arguing and the fight “didn’t don’t have something to do with Kevin.” She claimed Harold was “already labored up over that incident.”

She moreover talked about she obtained a phone title from Luster and can hear her son inside the background shouting, “Dad, why are you doing this? I don’t deserve this” as Harold allegedly beat on the youthful man’s truck. She then obtained one different title from Luster, saying he had shot someone.

“Kevin died with a gunshot to his forehead and his fingers tucked in his pockets,” Ward claimed. “He was lastly going to shoot Kevin’s fiancée and Kevin sacrificed himself, he was the hero that night time time. He would barely die than have her and that little one taken.”

She moreover denied dishonest on Luster, saying she had an on-and-off as soon as extra relationship with him and claimed he was residing with one different lady on the time.

“I in truth think about Kevin didn’t suppose his father would ever do one factor like that to him … I always thought it was going to be me, not my son,” she added, saying that she hopes Luster “[suffers] each single day at that memory.”

“My son can’t breathe, my son can’t stroll, my son can’t see, my son isn’t proper right here no additional … As far as justice, [Harold] deserves life,” she concluded.

Luster may be once more in courtroom on January 3 for a bond evaluation listening to.