VIRGINIA BEACH
A jury took less than 30 minutes Thursday to recommend that Kenneth Creamer spend his life in prison for killing his wife with a crossbow. Circuit Judge Frederick Lowe will sentence the 47-year-old man on Aug. 25.
After three days of testimony, the same jury on Wednesday convicted Creamer of first-degree murder. Jurors decided he had deliberately fired a razor-sharp hunting bolt into his wife’s back while she was walking on a treadmill on Jan. 8, 2006, in their garage in Courthouse Estates.
Witnesses in the trial said Anna Creamer had gone to a Hilltop jeweler to buy her husband a ring the night before she was murdered.
Creamer, who testified in his defense, maintained that the shooting was an accident. He said he mistakenly tossed a Christmas bag, which contained the crossbow, against a refrigerator and the bow discharged.
Prosecutors said it was no accident, noting that Creamer also claimed it was an accident when he grazed his wife’s chest with the same crossbow just four months earlier. Anna Creamer survived that time, requiring just two stitches.
They also presented evidence that showed the shot was not consistent with an arrow fired after hitting a refrigerator.
Duane Bourne, (757) 222-5150, duane.bourne@pilotonline.com
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