LEX 18 News obtained court documents from last month’s triple murder in Danville, and they describe more disturbing details of the crime.
Less then a week ago police arrested Pastor Kenneth Keith and charged him with killing Mike and Angela Hockensmith in front of their two children and murdering their client, Daniel Smith.
Kenneth Keith is a Pulaski County pastor and a former U.S. Army Green Beret with no criminal history. According to court documents, an anonymous call to Danville Police from a Michigan man who knew the victims and Keith, led to his arrest.
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On Friday September 20th Mike and Angela Hockensmith, and Daniel Smith were shot to death around 9:00 a.m. at Abc Gold Games and More in Danville. Keith used to own a different business at the same location until this summer. Court records show police found 14 spent shell casings, three live cartridges, and more than a thousand dollars left in the cash register at the crime scene.
According to court documents the anonymous call from Michigan came four days after the murders. The caller said he had talked with Keith, and Keith told him he was devastated about the deaths, but then detailed what he was doing that same day. The caller said Keith explained that he was in Lexington at the VA Hospital, then in Danville filling a prescription during the shootings. LEX 18 news learned from the documents that a former business partner called Keith and was concerned that he matched the description given by police. Keith allegedly told the ex-partner that he was at the Good Neighbor Pharmacy at the time of the murders. However, court documents show Keith missed that doctor’s appointment and was at a Danville pharmacy filling a prescription seven minutes after the 911 call reporting the shootings.
Surveillance video shows a van matching Keith’s vehicle, driving toward the store at around 8:45 a.m the morning of the murders, then driving away around 30 minutes later. According to the documents, Keith was seen later that morning at a Somerset carwash, getting the inside and outside of his minivan washed and detailed.
The Michigan caller also told police Keith knew Daniel Smith carried 30-40 thousand dollars and did business at the store on Fridays. According to the caller, Keith said he believed Smith was killed by a hitman, but when the caller asked keith if he thought the Hockensmiths were innocent bystanders, the caller said Keith “flipped a switch” and said they weren’t innocent, adding they had cost him a lot of money.
According to court documents, Keith owns several guns and had more than a dozen guns at his store in Pulaski county.
