AL
September 15, 2015
One of the two men charged with capital murder in the 2014 slaying of a retired Birmingham firefighter and two-tour Vietnam veteran during the break-in at a Hueytown home was sentenced to life in prison Thursday in a plea deal with prosecutors.
Under the plea deal 24-year-old Kamal Potts also agrees to “testify truthfully” at his co-defendant’s up-coming capital murder trial.
Potts and Romel Cunningham, 29, were charged in the April 23, 2014 slaying of 66-year-old Howard Arthur McKee. Cunningham’s trial is set to begin Nov. 30.
On Thursday Potts pleaded guilty to one count of felony murder and was sentenced by Bessemer Cutoff Jefferson County Circuit Judge David Carpenter to a life sentence during the hearing. Potts will eventually be eligible for parole under the sentence.