CHEEKTOWAGA, NY — Keaira Bennefield’s estranged husband — who now stands accused of killing her with a shotgun — by some means obtained an order of safety towards her after he savagely beat the mother of three of their dwelling, The Submit has realized.
The gorgeous new particulars behind the Buffalo lady’s stunning Oct. 5 slaying are contained in an official transcript of ex-con Adam Bennefield’s arraignment within the vicious, caught-on-camera beating inside their dwelling — lower than per week earlier than cops say he gunned down his spouse.
Keaira, 30, mentioned that Adam Bennefield, 45, “instructed me to ‘shut the f–ok up’ and that he was going to kill me” whereas allegedly punching her up and down her physique on Sept. 28, based on a police report.
Throughout his Oct. 4 arraignment in that incident, Adam Bennefield was slapped with a “full stay-away order of safety” to ostensibly safeguard his estranged spouse, based on the transcript.
However earlier within the listening to, protection lawyer Crystal Wentz revealed that Adam Bennefield had obtained his personal order of safety — towards Keaira — in Erie County Household Court docket the day earlier than.
Wentz objected to the brand new order protecting the couple’s condo and barring Adam Bennefield from it as a result of his earlier order additionally included preserving the mother away from “the entire kids, in impact giving custody” to him.
However Cheektowaga City Justice James Speyer Jr. rejected these arguments, calling the allegations towards Adam Bennefield “very severe” and saying that “so far as what’s taking place right here in Cheektowaga Legal Court docket, that’s the place I've to be involved.”
In response, Wentz requested a so-called Crawford listening to to find out if Adam Bennefield was being disadvantaged of a “substantial private or property curiosity” underneath phrases of an appeals court docket ruling final yr.
Speyer scheduled the listening to for Oct. 20, by which era Keaira Bennefield was already lifeless and Adam Bennefield was behind bars in her homicide.
It’s unclear on what grounds Adam Bennefield obtained the order of safety towards Keaira and Wentz didn’t instantly return a request for remark Friday.
Additionally throughout Bennefield’s Oct. 4 arraignment, the choose requested him, “So far as weapons or weapons, firearms, do you may have any of these?”
“None,” the defendant replied.
Underneath phrases of New York’s controversial bail reform regulation, Adam Bennefield was let loose following his arraignment as a result of all the fees towards him have been misdemeanors, primarily based on the extent of her accidents and never the brutal dwelling surveillance video of his raging prolonged alleged assault on her.
The subsequent morning, he allegedly opened hearth on Keaira throughout an ambush that befell whereas she was driving her three children to high school in Buffalo.
The tragic mother had instructed police that Adam Bennefield mentioned he was going to kill her through the assault and was so afraid he would carry it out that she wore a bulletproof vest in a determined — however finally futile — bid to guard herself.
Throughout an Oct. 21 information convention, Erie County District Legal professional John Flynn mentioned that authorities hadn’t but recovered the shotgun and that after the Sept. 28 assault, Keaira Bennefield instructed cops Adam Bennefield didn’t personal any weapons.
On Friday, the DA’s Workplace declined to say whether or not authorities had since decided when and the place Adam Bennefield allegedly obtained the shotgun.
“Our workplace can not remark whereas the case is pending prosecution,” Flynn spokeswoman Kait Munro mentioned.
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