Three Year Anniversary of Gary’s Murder

The third anniversary of Gary's murder, 06/16/2011. Things haven't changed much, we haven't eaten at Sonny's Barbecue since that gathering that Gary had for my fathers day celabration, many bad memories.
We still think of Gary and miss him, what a waste of life.
We are waiting for Sharon's trial, maybe now this will be over at last.

Mom May Testify At Sons Murder Trial

Mom May Testify At Son's Murder Trial
[She took the fifth amendment on all questions asked her]

http://www.wftv.com/news/25445635/detail.html

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. --
A mother could soon be called to testify in her son's murder trial. Her son, Darryl Kenney, is accused of murdering his own father the day after Father's Day in 2008.
Sharon Kenney has been subpoenaed as a possible defense witness so she has not been allowed into the courtroom yet. She could testify about hundreds of letters detailing abuse that the defense is hoping will keep Darryl Kenney from spending the rest of his life in prison.
"The wound was through the lung and through the heart," a medical examiner explained on the stand.As the medical examiner showed jurors the numerous injuries that led to Gary Kenney's death, his 24- year-old son sat at the defense attorney's table expressionless."What was the cause of death?" an attorney asked."Homicide," the medical examiner replied.
Investigators say Darryl Kenney killed his father in a fight over guns that were hidden from him. He was captured trying to flee from the neighborhood.

Noticably absent from the courtroom, the victim's wife and the defendant's mother, Sharon Kenney, and her daughter Amanda.

Darryl Kenney's defense attorney told jurors his mother wrote him hundreds of letters describing abuse at the hand of Gary Kenney. Investigators say Darryl met with his mother at the mall on Merritt Island just after he killed his father and told her to stay away. Authorities believe he returned to try to dispose of the body.

Agents say a few days before the murder he told his sister Amanda about his plan to kill their father and to make sure family members weren't home at the time. Agents say nobody in the family ever called authorities to warn them about Darryl Kenney's alleged plans. Neither Darryl's mother or sister have been accused of any wrong-doing, but both have retained attorneys and could challenge attempts to testify on Darryl Kenney's behalf.

Darryl Kenney's defense attorney said just because he subpoenaed the relatives doesn't mean he will necessarily put them on the witness stand, but it remains an option.

Sharom Myers

Re: A Central-Florida woman, 47-year-old Sharon Myers, has been charged with first-degree premeditated murder and armed burglary for what police say was her role in coercing her son into killing his father.

VIERA, Fla. -- Throughout Darryl Kenney's murder trial last October, his defense attorney painted a picture of a loving son expertly manipulated by his mother into killing his father.A jury of 12 didn't buy it. They convicted the 24-year-old of first-degree murder.Now, the alleged architect of the patricide is being charged.Homicide agents with the Brevard County Sheriff's Office arrested Sharon Myers on Tuesday after a grand jury indicted her on charges of first-degree premeditated murder and armed burglary.Myers, 47, of Viera, works at a Merritt Island credit union and was arrested without incident about 4:30 p.m."The investigators in this case have pieced together Sharon Myers' conspiracy from the moment her previous husband's body was discovered," Cmdr. Doug Waller told Local 6 News partner Florida Today. "The evidence demonstrated how she methodically manipulated her child as he sat in prison awaiting release. It was simply a matter of time until all of the pieces fell into place to enable an arrest."Defense attorney Randy Moore with the public defender's office urged jurors to use common sense during Darryl Kenney's murder trial, saying it was vital to know what was going on in Kenney's mind when he gunned down his father with a friend in 2008.Moore said it should have been Kenney's mother on trial. Moore said Myers wrote hundreds of letters to her son while he was in prison, detailing physical abuse against her and an attempted sexual molestation of his sister -- allegations Moore said were not true."Someone is feeding this information to Darryl while he is in prison," Moore said during closing arguments in October. "We have a young man that has come to the conclusion that this man was abusing his mother and tried to rape his sister. What was going through his mind when these acts were committed? Don't you know what was going on in his head?"Darryl Kenney shot and killed his father, Gary Kenney, at his Merritt Island home on Venetian Way in June 2008, only four days after the son's release from prison. He had served time for grand theft, burglary and aggravated battery. Kenney put seven bullets into his father's back as he tried to walk away from their confrontation.During Darryl Kenney's trial, it was revealed that he had written a letter to a sheriff's agent complaining about the abuse his mother and sister were suffering and that the defendant had a passion to "protect his mother and sister."Weeks after his conviction, Darryl Kenney contacted the Sheriff's Office about his mother's involvement.According to excerpts of the letters obtained from the Sheriff's Office, Myers complained to her son constantly about her abusive husband."Darryl, I just want to tell you that I have had some really bad thoughts lately and even thought about acting on them," she wrote in one letter. "Do you know anyone who could help me with Gary? I hope so."In other letters, she wrote:"I want my problem to go away, but I do not want you to spend more time in.""What I really want is for Gary to go away forever.""Can you contact the guy you said gets out in a month? Son, I am so tired of it. I am about ready to do it myself and not sure how though.According to the case report, Darryl Kenney then told investigators his mother rented a hotel room for him on Merritt Island for a few days and discussed how to get rid of the body. She told him where he could find his father's guns at his grandfather's house. She also loaned her son his father's truck so he could pick up accomplice Rubin Nero. After the murder, Darryl Kenney told investigators he met his mother at Merritt Square Mall to tell her the nefarious deed had been carried out.She told him to dispose of the body. When he went back to the house, he was met by sheriff's deputies investigating the guns stolen from the grandfather's house.Investigators said they corroborated Darryl Kenney's claims, including one that said his mother used a phone given to her by the Department of Children and Families to orchestrate the murder. The phone had been given to her even though there were no findings that supported her claims of physical and sexual abuse.Nero, who had met Darryl Kenney while in prison, was convicted of first-degree murder late last year. Prosecutors said Nero stabbed and slashed Gary Kenney.http://www.clickorlando.com/news/27211933/detail.html _________________ Do not resent growing old. Many are denied the privilege.

A Comment From An Anonymous Person, A Friend Of Sharon's

This is a comment sent to the blog by an anonymous person.

I knew ALL along Sharon was behind it. Even before the murder, Sharon had been acting really weird and doing things unlike her normal behavior. You could also tell Gary knew something was up. Sharon all of a sudden lost a ton of weight, started going to the tanning bed, dressing more provocative, flirting with any man who passed her and drinking more. She wanted OUT of the marriage for her own selfish reasons. She would write Darryl pages and pages of who knows what out of nowhere and arounf thesame time her behavior changed. Right after Gary died she bought 2 brand new cars, sold his belongings and immediately started dating someone . You couldn't even tell she was upset at all about Gary being gone, all she did was brag about her new bf. It's all disgusting to me and.as much as I liked Sharon this makes me sick. I'm glad your family can have a little closure, I just hope Joshua and Amanda are cared for and welcomed because they are innocent.

Mother charged with first-degree murder for role in coercing son to kill his father

Homicide agents with the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office waited for a grand jury indictment earlier today before swooping in and arresting a Merritt Island woman they say coerced her son into killing his father.
Investigators arrested Sharon Myers, 47, [Sharon has remarried] in connection with her husband’s 2008 murder. She has been charged with first-degree premeditated murder and armed burglary.
Her son, 24-year-old Darryl Kenney, was convicted of the murder in October and sentenced to life in prison. His accomplice, Rubin Nero, also was sentenced to life. But throughout Kenney’s trial, defense attorneys pinned the blame on his mother. They said Myers worked her son into a murderous rage by sending him hundreds of letters detailing fictitious abuse against her and Darryl Kenney’s sister.
Public defender Randy Moore urged jurors to use common sense during the trial, saying it is vital to know what was going on in Kenney's mind when he gunned down his father only days after being released from prison.
He said it should have been Kenney's mother who should have been on trial.
"Someone is feeding this information to Darryl while he is in prison," Moore said during closing arguments in October. "We have a young man that has come to the conclusion that this man was abusing his mother and tried to rape his sister. What was going through his mind when these acts were committed? Don't you know what was going on in his head?"
Contact Torres at 242-3649 or jtorres@floridatoday.com

More About Gary

I received a call on November Sixteenth from a fellow who had worked with Gary at the Space Center. He wanted to tell me that he had purchased a brick in Gary’s name in the memorial garden at the Cape Canaveral Space Visitor Center, he said it was in section five. We haven’t gotten up there to see it yet but will first chance we get.
He went on to tell me that he had talked to me at Gary’s funeral and told me all the help Gary had been to him. He told me that he had been having trouble with his air conditioner and Gary and Josh came up to his house and spent the whole day working on it at the end of the day he went out to get pizza for them, while he was gone his wife tried to give Gary $100.00 for working on he air conditioner, Gary didn’t want to take and she forced him to take it. After Gary left they got a phone call it was Gary he said are you on the phone in the den, look under the phone, the $100.00 bill that his wife had given him was there under the phone. Gary told him he fixed the air conditioner because he was a friend not for money.

Choose Sides

Joshua 24:15

And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.