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Kan. Deputy, who shot out suspect’s eye, testifies in murder trial

Jensen -from a 1999 photo courtesy Kansas Department of Corrections

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A homeless man has been convicted in the stabbing and beating death of a Springfield woman whose body was found stuffed underneath a mattress at her home.

Jurors found 41-year-old Andrew Jensen guilty Thursday of second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the 2015 death of Kathi Jones.

Jensen and Jones were friends, and she sometimes let him sleep in her van. His DNA was found on a cigarette and bloody clothing. But the defense said some of Jensen’s blood found at the home came from him crawling through a window and cutting his arm when Jones got locked out days before her death.

Jensen-photo Greene Co. Sheriff

Pratt County Kansas Undersheriff Max Barrett, who shot out one of Jensen’s eyes during a 1994 gunfight, was among those to testify.

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