A former Kyle resident has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his estranged girlfriend.
James Craig Keen, 52, killed Erin Wright, who was 39 at the time of her death on March 26, 2016. It happened in her kitchen and one of her young daughters testified that she saw the two arguing before Keen climbed up on a counter and grabbed a gun that had been on top of a cabinet. The girl told jurors she saw him point the gun at her mother and shoot, saying she also remembered holding her mother’s hand afterward.
The couple have one child together and had a history of domestic abuse. Wright had moved away when their baby was just months old, but moved back from Oregon early in the month Wright was killed in order that Keen could get to know his daughter, then nine. District Attorney Wes Mau’s office noted in its press release that the murder occurred “only three weeks after Wright and her two daughters had moved in with Keen.”
