How was this dirtbag able to appear before a judge, obtain a magistrate’s waiver in the downtown county courthouse when every LEO in San Antonio was looking for him?
SAN ANTONIO – Seven hours before his arrest in the fatal slaying of a San Antonio police officer, capital murder suspect Otis Tyrone McKane was at the Bexar County Courthouse getting married as he was the subject of a massive manhunt, according to official records obtained by mySA.com.
McKane, held in Sunday’s ambush slaying of Det. Benjamin Marconi, married Christian Chanel Fields, who owns the white Buick McKane was in at the time of his arrest, after they obtained a magistrate’s waiver from the customary 72-hour waiting period after a marriage license is issued.
County records indicate the license was issued at 9:27 a.m. Monday. He was arrested at 4:20 p.m. with a woman and 2-year-old child, who police have not yet identified, in the car.
Fields, 27, has been arrested on at least two theft charges in Harris County, records show. She was sentenced to deferred adjudication in lieu of a conviction for a 2010 state jail felony charge, records show. Fields was sentenced in a misdemeanor theft case in May 2011, according to court records.
Fields bought the white Buick in Houston, records show.
According to public records, Charlynn Fields is the mother of Christian Chanel Fields. Christian Chanel lists a Charlynn Fields as her mother on her Facebook page, which also shows she has a young daughter.
The ‘presiding judge’ who signed the waiver in the heavily secured Bexar County Courthouse was County Court-at-Law No. 9 Judge Walden Shelton, according to the county clerk’s office. He is also performed the marriage ceremony, but refused to comment Tuesday.
Marconi, 50, was fatally shot during a traffic stop near SAPD headquarters around 11:45 a.m. Sunday. McKane is accused of pulling up behind Marconi’s cruiser while the detective was issuing a traffic citation to someone else and firing twice through the passenger window.