Victim kidnapped, beaten, shot. Six charged in Kentucky murder and cover-up.
Six people have been charged in connection to the kidnapping and murder of a Louisville man and efforts to cover up the crimes, according to the Paducah Police Department.
According to court records, the primary suspects in the case are William Tabor, 28, and Chelsey Doss, 20. Tabor and Doss, who were dating, have been charged with murder, kidnapping and evidence tampering while Tabor has additionally been charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and abuse of a corpse.
According to police, officers received information that a man had been kidnapped, abused and shot several hours before on Tuesday morning. Police later identified the man as Justin Housewright, 33, of Louisville.
Housewright and Tabor previously got into an argument, per police. Casey Glunt, 42, later told Tabor that Housewright was at Glunt’s residence on Farley Place.
Tabor, Doss, Tyanna Sims, 19, and James Kortz, 46, subsequently went to the house and assaulted Housewright, police said. Court records say that Tabor tied Housewright up with duct tape and a rope.
Glunt was charged with facilitation to kidnapping after alerting Tabor, Doss and Sims of Housewright’s location, according to police. He was also charged with evidence tampering for cleaning up the residence after Housewright was assaulted.
Sims was charged with complicity to kidnapping, according to court records. She admitted to assaulting Housewright — “by punching him multiple times and stomping him while he was on the ground” — as he was tied up at the home on Farley Place.
After the beating, Tabor and Doss forced Housewright into a vehicle and took him to another residence on Elizabeth Street, police said. While there, Housewright escaped, but Tabor chased him down and shot him in the head multiple times, per court records.
Police said Tabor eventually told detectives that the group left Housewright’s body at the Elizabeth Street location for several hours before ultimately disposing of it in a wood line near a cornfield near West Plains Road in Hickory. The distance between the two locations is approximately 20 miles.
Court records say Doss discarded Housewright’s clothes while Tabor got rid of the body.
Paducah police detectives and Graves County Sheriff’s deputies found the body late Wednesday night, according to police.
Kortz was charged with complicity to murder, kidnapping and possession of a handgun by a convicted felon, police said. He allegedly provided Tabor with the gun used in the murder.
Lisa Tabor, 57, was charged with evidence tampering after hiding the gun William Tabor allegedly used to kill Housewright, per police.
This story was originally published November 4, 2021 at 12:49 PM.
