27 April 2018 :

A Colbert County jury today recommended the death penalty for Peter Capote, one of five people accused in the 2016 slaying of teenager Ki-Jana Freeman. The jury voted 10-2 to impose the death penalty after convicting Capote, 24, White, of capital murder. Circuit Judge Hal Hughston Jr. will issue a formal sentence May 24. Freeman was fatally shot March 1, 2016 as he sat in a Mustang with his friend Tyler Blythe. Blythe, 17, was injured in the shooting. Capote is the third man convicted in the case. Prosecutors said Capote and Benjamin Young, who was sentenced to death on March 13 (see), were the trigger men. De'Vontae Bates pleaded guilty last year to criminal conspiracy and agreed to testify about the plan to kill Freeman. His sentencing is scheduled later this year.