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KXLY
January 10, 2015
Kenan Adams-Kinard, one of two suspects in the beating death of WWII combat veteran Delbert “Shorty” Belton, is expected to plead guilty to first-degree murder just a week before he’s scheduled to go to trial for the August 2013 killing.
Several KXLY sources confirm Adams-Kinard will plead guilty Wednesday to first-degree murder before Judge Sam Cozza. The first-degree murder charge comes with the aggravating factor that the victim – an 88-year-old man – was an especially vulnerable victim due to his age.
In exchange for his plea, the robbery and conspiracy charges were dropped against Adams-Kinard.
The announcement is a surprise reversal from Adams-Kinard, the juvenile who graduated from assault and theft to being one of two prime suspects in Belton’s killing, a killing Adams-Kinard claimed was the result of a drug deal gone badly between Adams-Kinard, accomplice Demetrius Glenn and Belton, who Adams-Kinard claimed was a crack dealer.
Belton, 88, was found beaten, bloody, barely clinging to life and stuffed in the back of his car in the parking lot of the Eagles Lodge in north Spokane by a friend moments after the attack. He was taken to Sacred Heart Medical Center where he succumbed to his injuries hours later.
While Glenn surrendered to authorities a short time after Belton’s death, Adams-Kinard evaded capture for several days. Tips led police to a basement apartment at 500 West Montgomery where he was taken into custody without incident.
During the time he was evading capture, Adams-Kinard tried to deflect his complicity in the attack by concocting an allegation, which he shared with friends, that he had been buying crack cocaine from the WWII vet and that, while acting as the “muscle” for a drug deal, he alleged he “was trying to buy an ounce of crack cocaine from Shorty, and Shorty tried ripping him off.”
The allegation was made in a letter to his mother that “[We] opened the door and then socked him (Shorty). Two more times … I took his wallet and another ounce of crack from his pockets.”
It was an allegation that police said had no merit and brought swift condemnation and outrage from Belton’s closest friends.
“Shorty couldn’t even watch somebody take an insulin shot without going, ‘Whoa,’ you know, kind of getting all light headed,” Ted Denison, Shorty’s friend, said in a late August 2013 interview.
“He had nothing to do with drugs or any of that kind of stuff,” Shorty’s friend Glenn Longsdorff said.
