ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - The man who was found guilty in May for murdering a St. Louis Metropolitan Police Officer in 2020 was sentenced to life without parole Thursday afternoon.
Thomas Kinworthy was found guilty of first-degree murder in May regarding the 2020 death of St. Louis Metropolitan police officer Tamarris Bohannon.
Bohannon, 29, along with his partner Arlando Bailey, 33, responded to a call in August 2020, in the 3700 block of Hartford Street in the City’s Tower Grove South neighborhood regarding the shooting of a homeless man.
Kinworthy randomly shot a homeless man digging through dumpsters in the Tower Grove South neighborhood. The homeless man would run to the nearby home of Mary and Steven Haag and asked them to call 911. Mary Haag was making the emergency call when Kinworthy walked through the Haags' unlocked front door and ordered her to hang up the phone.
The Haags were able to escape out the back door unharmed, but Kinworthy would barricaded himself in a bathroom on the second floor of the house, armed with a nine-millimeter semi-automatic handgun.
Officer Bohannon and Bailey arrived on the scene. As they walked to the front of the Haags’ house, Kinworthy fired one shot through the bathroom window, striking Bohannon in the head. His fellow officers ran to his aid and took him to a hospital where he died of his injury.
As more officers converged on the area, Kinworthy shot Bailey in the leg as he attempted to take cover behind a parked vehicle. St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department negotiators spent nearly 10 hours at the scene, with snipers standing by, trying to persuade Kinworthy to give himself up and come out of the house.
After Kinworthy cut off communications, a SWAT team deployed cannisters containing a chemical irritant, stormed the house, and would capture Kinworthy.
Kinworthy, a convicted felon on the run from a warrant in Florida, had come to St. Louis to visit his father, whom he had not communicated with in 13 years.
During the trial, Kinworthy was also found guilty of armed criminal action and assault for shooting and seriously wounding Bailey and a homeless man.
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