Man convicted of murder committed by police officer to be sentenced Thursday

ST. LOUIS – The man convicted of killing a St. Louis police officer is expected to be sentenced Thursday afternoon.

In May, a jury found Thomas Kinworthy guilty of murdering St. Louis police officer Tamarris Bohannon.

In August 2020, Officer Tamarris Bohannan, 29, and his partner, Arlando Bailey, responded to a call of a shooting in the Tower Grove South neighborhood.

A couple who called 911 said, while on the phone with a dispatcher,
Kinworthy entered their home, held them at gunpoint and told them to hang up.
The couple escaped through a back door and spoke with Officer Bohannon.

As Bohannon walked toward the front of the house, Kinworthy shot him in the head with a 9-millimeter handgun from a second-story window of the couple's home. Bohannon's partner, Arlando Bailey, was shot in the leg and survived.

Police arrested Kinworthy after a nearly 12-hour standoff. Officer Bohannon died the next day. He had been on the force for over three and a half years.
And leaves behind a wife and three children.

On May 2, a jury found Kinworthy guilty of the murder of Officer Bohannon.
Jurors also found him guilty of injuring that other officer and a civilian. Bohannon's family says it's been a long and painful road to today.

A conviction for first-degree murder carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison. A judge is expected to sentence Kinworthy at 1:30 Thursday afternoon at the civil court building.