Murderer vows to fight for his freedom

12/29/2010

Vowing he would appeal his conviction and fight for his freedom, Gerry A. King was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years to life for the murder of his father in Sharon in November 2009.
A Schoharie County Court jury found King, 38, guilty of second-degree murder, a Class A1 felony, in late September after three days of deliberations.
Sentencing was originally scheduled for November 17 but was postponed to Wednesday morning.
King said he did not feel he was guilty of second-degree murder and it was not his intention to kill George King, according to court officials.
He said he was going to “appeal, appeal and appeal” his conviction and “will fight until the day he dies,” a court official said.
He claimed he suffered an alcoholic blackout the day of the killing, said court officials.
During the trial, Schoharie County District Attorney James Sacket rejected the notion that King was too drunk noting that that he was not too intoxicated to go back to the scene of the crime to clean up his bloody fingerprints and get a hat he left there.
Testimony showed, Mr. Sacket said, that King talked about killing and hurting his father for more than two years.
Mr. Sacket was unavailable for comment after the sentencing.
King, formerly of Sprakers, was arrested in Connecticut after his father’s body was discovered in his Staleyville Road home in Sharon on November 16, 2009.
In addition to the prison sentence, the court granted orders of protection for more than 10 members of his family.
George King’s body was discovered by a neighbor who had been asked to check up on him after the 63-year-old truck driver failed to show up for work.
In a statement from a 15-year-old witness shortly after the murder, King told the boy that he killed his father.