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   Following four days of trial and a courthouse closure due to Hurricane   
   Helene, U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Bree Kuhn was found guilty Friday   
   of murdering her husband in their Gulf Breeze home and sentenced to   
   Florida's Department of Corrections.   
      
   Kuhn, who was stationed onboard Naval Air Station Pensacola during the   
   incident, was convicted of the first-degree premeditated murder of her   
   husband, Collin Turner, after locking him in their garage and shooting   
   him four times in the back during a 911 phone call on Sept. 8, 2021.   
      
   Immediately following statements from Turner's family, Circuit Judge   
   James Duncan sentenced Kuhn to life in a Florida state prison without   
   the possibility of parole, the legal mandatory minimum for her charge.   
      
   Collin Turner's parents speak in court prior to Bree Kuhn's sentencing   
   After the jury was dismissed from the courtroom following the   
   announcement of their verdict, family of the victim and defendant were   
   allowed time to speak to the court.   
      
   "You're honor, this is a letter I never imagined I'd have to write,"   
   Turner's mother, Tere, said in court Friday. "When I think of the   
   impact the loss of Collin has had on my life, it's difficult to put   
   into words.   
      
   "I've watched my husband suffer as he misses his son," she added.   
      
   As Tere Turner finished, her husband and Collin's father, Donald, also   
   spoke to the court about the impact of having his son ripped away from   
   their family.   
      
   "Bree has deprived the world of a loving son, father, grandson and   
   leader," Donald Turner said through tears. "We have been so blessed   
   with how many people reached out to us and said how Collin had impacted   
   them in such a positive way.   
      
   "We saw the love he gave to the world, and the world desperately needs   
   loving leaders like Collin more than ever before," he added. "We call   
   this God's light in the darkness. The darkness has not won."   
      
   Following Turner's parents speaking, Kuhn wished to remain silent and   
   not make a statement. Kuhn's family in attendance also chose not to   
   speak.   
      
   What happened between Bree Kuhn and Collin Turner on Sept. 8, 2021?   
   The Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office received a 911 phone call from   
   Kuhn at 12:53 p.m. after she and Turner got into a heated argument   
   regarding their three children.   
      
   Deputies went to the home, but left after finding no evidence of a   
   physical altercation.   
      
   SRSO dispatchers then received a second call at 5 p.m., this time from   
   Turner, but when deputies arrived and found no evidence of physical   
   abuse, they again left the premises.   
      
   Turner placed the final 911 call that night at 6:22 p.m., which was   
   played during the trial, telling the dispatcher that Kuhn had locked   
   him in their garage. Turner told dispatchers that his wife "tried to   
   break his arm when he tried to get back in the residence."   
      
   A bang was heard during the call followed by Turner yelling, "Ow!"   
      
   "What was that?" the dispatcher asked.   
      
   "She just shot me!" Turner said. The call then picks up three   
   additional shots followed by silence.   
      
   All three of their children were home during the shooting. In 2021,   
   Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson said that two of the children   
   were taken into custody of the Department of Children and Families.   
   Turner's 12-year-old stepdaughter was placed with her natural father.   
      
   Bree Kuhn's attorneys claim Collin Turner's abuse led to the shooting   
   Randy Etheridge, Kuhn's attorney alongside James Barnes, told the jury   
   that Kuhn alleges her husband had been abusive since his medical   
   discharge from the Marine Corps, citing his 100% disability status due   
   to traumatic brain injury.   
      
   "He had issues with his brain, and you're going to hear Bree say,   
   'You're unstable. You're a danger to the kids,'" Etheridge said. "We're   
   not talking about a normal person here."   
      
   The defense claims that Kuhn suffered mental, physical and even sexual   
   abuse at the hands of Turner that began well before the defendant was   
   stationed at NAS Pensacola.   
      
   Hoping to rely on battered spouse syndrome, the defense planned to have   
   Kuhn and psychologist Dr. Julie Harper testify Wednesday, but a quick   
   change in plans led to Kuhn not wanting to testify, leading the defense   
   to not call the doctor to the stand.   
      
   Kuhn's older brother, Eric, did testify on her behalf, saying he heard   
   his sister talk about Turner's abuse and heard the shooting over the   
   phone.   
      
   "I heard a lot of discourse - Collin screaming, things being hit, at   
   one point he was on the phone with police," Eric Kuhn said on the   
   stand. "I did hear his voice raised a few times, yes, and I heard   
   children crying."   
      
   Eric Kuhn testified in open court he knew his sister had a gun during   
   the argument the day of the shooting, but prosecutor Mark Alderman   
   brought up a contradiction during cross examination.   
      
   While Eric Kuhn testified to knowing his sister had a gun to defend   
   herself and her kids from Turner, Alderman argued the witness had never   
   made those statements during his police interview in 2021, nor in his   
   Zoom deposition in June 2024.   
      
   When asked about the difference in his testimonies, Eric Kuhn said he   
   told investigators about the gun before they began recording his   
   interview, but then he made no mention of it again as not to be   
   "redundant."   
      
   Eric Kuhn also testified that technology issues with Zoom arose during   
   his 2024 deposition that caused only his testimony about the gun to be   
   unheard, nothing else.   
      
   (This story was updated to add new information.)   
      
   https://www.pnj.com/story/news/crime/2024/09/27/nas-pensacola-chief-   
   petty-officer-bree-kuhn-convicted-of-murdering-husband-collin-   
   turner/75385754007/   
      
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