Docs: Man Shoots Another Man In New Albany, Tries To Cover It Up
Source: Floyd County Jail / other
NEW ALBANY, Ind. — A man in New Albany is being charged with murder for shooting a man he’d been involved with outside his home on Saturday.
Court documents say Kevin Campbell, 68, shot and killed Christopher Proctor, 41. This after the two had ended a nearly year-long relationship. Floyd County prosecutor Chris Lane says there had been “frustration” between them in the last months of their relationship.
Detectives say Proctor was returning some personal items Saturday and when he approached the house and knocked on the window Campbell is said to have come to the door of his home and shot Proctor with a “small caliber rifle.”
Panicked, court documents say Campbell waited two hours after the shooting to call the cops. That after he tried to cover up what had happened. Investigators say he initially tried to hide the body but was physically unable to move it. So that’s when he is said to have tried to make it look like he shot Proctor in self-defense.
“Initially there were statements made that a sword was on the victim,” said Lane. “Later on there was information that it was placed there later (by Campbell). It was put at the victim’s body to make it seem that way.”
When police eventually showed up they said Campbell’s account of what happened didn’t make sense and soon after he admitted to having shot Proctor.
Campbell is charged with murder, manslaughter, criminal recklessness with a firearm, and obstruction of justice. He is being held in the Floyd County Jail after having made his first court appearance on Monday.
