August 9th, 2013
09:18 PM ET

Kentucky jury acquits man in beating death

A jury in Kentucky Friday night acquitted 17-year-old Joshua Young in the beating death of his stepbrother, Trey Zwicker, two years ago.

Young also was found not guilty of tampering with evidence.

Josh Gouker, Young's father, pleaded guilty to murder in Zwicker's death, and was sentenced on July 26 to life in prison. But prosecutors said Young worked with Gouker to beat Zwicker as the teen suffocated in the mud of a ditch behind a Kentucky high school.

"Trey Zwicker was brutally murdered at age 14 ... because Josh Gouker is a control freak and because Josh Young wanted to impress him," prosecutor Elizabeth Brown told the jury in Jefferson County Circuit Court during Friday's closing arguments. She said Gouker was upset with Zwicker's mother after she aborted Gouker's unborn child, and he wanted revenge.

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  1. Aspirin

    Test

    August 9, 2013 at 10:00 pm | Report abuse |
  2. Aspirin

    Effective Jan 1, 2014, aspirin will be heavily taxed under dummy care

    August 9, 2013 at 10:01 pm | Report abuse |
  3. Aspirin

    The only explanation given was that they are white and they work

    August 9, 2013 at 10:02 pm | Report abuse |
  4. Aspirin

    No other reason was given,

    August 9, 2013 at 10:04 pm | Report abuse |
  5. Aspirin

    but I

    August 9, 2013 at 10:07 pm | Report abuse |
  6. chrissy

    Good lord! I agree @ BOMBO, very confusing! And tragic.

    August 9, 2013 at 10:55 pm | Report abuse |
  7. Rascal Rabble

    lol..i guess these tragedies coulddah been avoided if the woman held an aspirin between her knees...

    August 9, 2013 at 10:57 pm | Report abuse |
  8. chrissy

    I doubt it @ Rascal. The article did say her husband was a control freak so it wouldn't have mattered.

    August 9, 2013 at 11:24 pm | Report abuse |
    • Rascal Rabble

      chrissy she could have medicated that problem everytime she fixed him a drink and prepared his food...

      August 10, 2013 at 12:16 am | Report abuse |
  9. chrissy

    Well @ Rascal, thats true also, but then she might have been the one on trial for that.

    August 10, 2013 at 9:21 am | Report abuse |
  10. banasy©

    The father sounds like a piece of work. Glad he's out of circulation.

    August 10, 2013 at 1:36 pm | Report abuse |
  11. piankie

    *berp*

    August 10, 2013 at 1:50 pm | Report abuse |
  12. piankie

    I agree with banasy

    August 10, 2013 at 1:51 pm | Report abuse |
  13. chrissy

    Lol @ banasy, he does bare a very stroonnnngggg resemblance to p i m p dummy, thats why i sooo gotta chuckle out of Rascals last post ya know? Lmao

    August 10, 2013 at 5:15 pm | Report abuse |
  14. dazzle ©

    @chrissy, trying to get a lol out to you on the p d saying. Very good!

    August 10, 2013 at 7:11 pm | Report abuse |
  15. chrissy

    Is that really, really dazzle? And PD is driving me NUTS!

    August 10, 2013 at 8:03 pm | Report abuse |
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