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PHOENIX<\/strong> – A Valley man accused of murdering eight people, including his mother and stepfather, will soon learn his fate.\u00a0<\/p>\n After a five-month trial, the case against Cleophus Cooksey, Jr. is now in the hands of a jury.\u00a0<\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n Cooksey is accused in a series of murders and other crimes back in 2017, including robbery, kidnapping and sexual assault.\u00a0<\/p>\n The alleged killing spree began on November 27, 2017, with the deaths of two men found shot dead outside a car in a parking lot. It ended a few weeks later when Cooksey\u2019s mother, Rene, and stepfather, Edward Nunn, were found dead in their apartment, shot at close range.<\/p>\n Throughout the trial, prosecutors argued that forensic evidence, including bullets from two 9-millimeter guns found at the crime scenes, and GPS data, all linked Cooksey to the string of killings.\u00a0<\/p>\n The defense contended that the prosecution’s forensic evidence was unreliable, did not present motives for all the killings, or connections to all the victims. There were also no eyewitnesses.<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n The jury will begin deliberating on September 22.\u00a0<\/p>\n If Cooksey is convicted, he is facing the death penalty.<\/p>\n The Source:<\/b> Information was gathered from Maricopa County Superior Court and previous FOX 10 reporting.<\/p>\n Crime and Public Safety<\/a>News<\/a>Phoenix<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX – A Valley man accused of murdering eight people, including his mother and stepfather, will soon learn…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":240105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,6082,1588,50,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-240104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-crime-publicsafety","12":"tag-maricopa-county","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-phoenix","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115233636196071468","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}