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topicnews · July 18, 2025

Lawyers for ex-preliminary operating corrections to have killed Titusville woman to avoid a death penalty

Lawyers for ex-preliminary operating corrections to have killed Titusville woman to avoid a death penalty

Brevard County, Fla. -The lawyers for an ex-pioneer who is accused of having killed a 72-year-old woman with Titusville asks a judge on Friday to relieve an application to request the death penalty.

David Armstrong Barber will be charged with the death and murder of the first degree in the death of Jessie Kirk, who was reported as missing on March 4th under “very suspicious” circumstances.

In May, the public prosecutor said for the 18th judiciary that it would obtain the death penalty because the crime was “particularly hideous, cruel or cruel” and that it was “cold, calculated and deliberately”.

During the hearing on Friday, Barber's lawyers will ask the judge to consider the public prosecutor's office to apply for the death penalty.

Kirk was reported missing by a friend after not showing up for a morning walk.

Barber, a former Brevard County member, was originally arrested for a tension and Grand Theft Auto after the investigators found that he was lurking on his arms near Kirk's apartment.

After an affidavit of the probability, the police came to Kirk's apartment on March 4 and met a friend of her who let the officials come into the garage, where they “found a strong smell of bleach and cleaning chemicals in the air”.

The police found Kirk's Lincoln Navigator, in which her cell phone was last, but later after she believed that, according to the affidavit, she was with the girlfriend who lived on this street.

Kirk's friends and family continued to look for her where her vehicle was last seen, and they found that the vehicle was no longer there and that they noticed a hairdressing vehicle, a Honda CRV.

“It was suspicious because the niece no longer lives or works in the Titusville region in a relationship with David Barber for about a year,” says the affidavit.

According to the affidavit, Kirk's niece told the police that she used to receive a text from Kirk's phone in the morning that “implied Kirk was concerned about her security and planned to hide”. She told the police that this text did not sound as much as Kirk writes or speaks and that she believed that Barber had hurt her aunt, said the affidavit.

Barber later returned to his vehicle on this day, where the police noticed that he had a big fire on the right arm and that this part of his shirt was burned after the affidavit. When the police asked him about his injuries, he said: “He would rather not talk about it” and that “accidents happen”.

The officials were then notified by the Sheriff's office of the orange County office that a Lincoln navigator was burned in the forests on State Road 520 and Highway 50 near Christmas in East Orange County. The license plate voted Kirks, according to the affidavit.

Detectives examine the murder of Jessie Kirk from Titusville, who was found dead in Brevard County. Her car had been set on fire in Orange County. (TPD)

According to the affidavit, a witness said that they had seen a man who held his right arm when he walked the Highway 50 along the area where the burned car was found.

People were later burned south of the transport channel and the Courtenay Parkway and voted off Kirks description.

During a search for Barber's vehicle, the police said that it had found evidence that he had “planned the death of Kirk and in particular mentioned the necessary items to take ways of masking and avoiding his identity and avoiding those who try to find him”, according to an affidavit. The police then found objects from Kirk during another search for the vehicle.

“Jessie was a long -time resident of Titusville and North Brevard. She was a friendly person and had a gift to connect with everyone and everyone,” said Tyler Wright, police commander of Titusville. “It was known that she was always there for everyone and helps, regardless of the situation.“”

In addition to the murder suspicion, the Titusville police said that Barber is also exposed to evidence due to arson, burglary of an occupied structure, misuse of a dead human body, theft and manipulation.

The hearing on Friday is for 10 a.m. and the Brevard County Community Correspondent James Sparvero will take part.

Have a look after updates.

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