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A man in West Virginia ambushed a state trooper at the end of his shift
with a flurry of gunfire and then stood over him as he continued his
attack.

A Mingo County jury found Timothy Kennedy, 32, guilty of murder in the
death of 37-year-old West Virginia State Police Sgt. Cory Maynard, the
West Virginia Troopers Association announced on Monday.

In addition to being found guilty of first-degree murder, Kennedy was
also convicted of two counts of attempted murder in the first degree,
disarming a law enforcement officer, and first-degree robbery, according
to courtroom footage from regional ABC and Fox affiliate WCHS.

On June 2, 2023, Maynard and multiple other troopers were called about a shooting. They responded to the 4200 block of Beech Creek Drive in Mingo County, a rural area in the southwestern part of West Virginia.

It was apparently the end of the sergeant's shift, and his colleague
encouraged him not to go.

"I tried to tell Sgt. Maynard not to come," West Virginia State Trooper Jonathan Ziegler testified during the trial, per area CBS affiliate
WOWK. "I told him to go home. It was time for him to go home; I said,
'Go home,' and he said 'No, I'm coming.' rCa I said, 'I'm dropping over at Beech Creek. I love you.' He said, 'I love you, too.'"

As Law&Crime previously reported, a then-39-year-old Benjamin Adam
Baldwin had been shot. Though he was taken to a hospital and listed as
in stable condition, the danger had not ended for the law enforcement
officers.

Ziegler recounted Kennedy showing "absolutely no mercy" for Maynard,
shooting him "not once, but three times. He showed no mercy when he
stood overtop of Cory and struck Cory with a gun. As if shooting Cory
wasn't enough, he had to stand overtop of him and strike him."

Maynard rCo a husband and father of two rCo was pronounced dead.

Kennedy ran from police and was arrested that night after a manhunt. His
face was bruised and bloodied as he appeared for a mug shot.

The since-convicted defendant has argued that he was high on meth and hallucinating when he shot Maynard and that he couldn't remember what
happened. He begged for forgiveness and said of video evidence, "I can't believe what I saw and that I was capable of doing such things."

"I wish I would have never saw drugs," he added, per WOWK. "They have
ruined my life. I wish I could go back and change what happened. I'm
nothing like the person you saw on video sober rCa I'm not a monster. I
wish people knew the person I really am."

Kennedy is expected to be sentenced on July 7.

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