Young lady. Cop Killed Woman After She Ended Relationship With Him, Threatened To Tell His Wife – Women After 40

A former police officer in Oxford, Mississippi, has agreed to plead guilty to murdering his former lover after she ended their relationship and threatened to expose their affair.

Matthew Kinne, 38, will admit to murdering Dominique Clayton, with whom he was romantically involved.

Lafayette County Circuit Clerk Jeff Busby, Assistant District Attorney Mickey Mallette and Attorney Carlos Moore, representing the Clayton family, each confirmed to the Oxford Eagle that Kinney will enter a plea deal for life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Clayton’s body was discovered by her 8-year-old son in May 2019. She had been shot in the head.

At the time, relatives told FOX13 that Clayton’s four children were returning from a weekend at their uncle’s. The boy was sent inside to lure Clayton out for a funny prank, but he came out of the house instead and told his siblings that their mother was dead.

The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation soon took Kinne into custody and charged him with murder in connection with Clayton’s death.

Clayton’s relatives told local media that she was romantically involved with Kinne, who was married to someone else at the time. He had been a four-year veteran of the Oxford Police Department.

Kinne’s attorney, Tony Farese, told WRAL that Kinne was “broke” when Clayton threatened to tell his wife about the affair.

“He’s repentant,” Farese told the broadcaster. “That was a situation where he literally got to the point where he broke. This was a law-abiding citizen, a law enforcement officer, he had no prior history and he was literally pushed to the brink of collapse and he committed a crime of passion.”

Kinne will face a formal sentencing on Friday. Neither the prosecution nor the defense immediately responded to requests for comment.