Opinion ID: 1463584
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: The Robbery of Tacuma Kinsey

Text: Tacuma Kinsey was the brother of one of Payne's girlfriends. In April 1998, Kinsey's friend Michael Johnson, who worked for an armored car company that picked up money from a K-Mart store, devised a plan to steal the money. Johnson provided Payne and Kinsey with company uniforms, and Payne and Kinsey went to K-Mart posing as armored car guards. ( See Tr. 1111-16.) K-Mart employees handed Kinsey bags containing checks and approximately $100,000 in cash. Returning to Johnson's house, Payne, Kinsey, and Johnson divided the money, with Kinsey and Payne each receiving $30,000, and Johnson receiving the rest. ( See id. at 1116-17.) Kinsey returned home and hid most of his share in his closet. Payne had previously described the K-Mart plan to Thomas, but he did not disclose his participation in the eventual robbery. When Hunter learned of the K-Mart robbery, he and Payne told Thomas that Kinsey had robbed the K-Mart without them. ( See id. at 1385-86.) Hunter, angry that Kinsey had excluded Hunter (and, he believed, Payne) from participation in that lucrative robbery, decided that Kinsey himself should be robbed. Thus, at about 4 a.m. the following morning, Payne and Hunter (and a third man whom Kinsey did not recognize) broke into Kinsey's room ( see id. at 1119-20). They held Kinsey at gunpoint, tied him up, and beat him, repeatedly hitting him in the face with a gun, and stole his hidden stash of K-Mart money. ( See id. at 1120-22.)