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twitterChain saw home invasion suspect has previous run-ins with law
Manslaughter charge added in death of unborn baby
Published Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2008 | 3:24 p.m.
Updated Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008 | 4:13 p.m.
William John Keck
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A man suspected of killing the 18-week-old fetus of his estranged wife and of killing the woman's new boyfriend was indicted by a federal grand jury in Arizona earlier this year on charges of assault and robbery, according to documents obtained by the Las Vegas Sun.
William John Keck was charged, along with five others, after an attack on two men at the Kingman Wash on the Arizona side of Lake Mead on Feb. 24, according to the indictment. The charges were filed in federal court because the Lake Mead National Recreation Area is federal land.
Keck told a special agent that two men in a boat approached Keck's group, which had set up camp on the shore.
Keck said his companions worried the two men who had arrived on a boat were "cops." His girlfriend said one of the men "creeped her out." When Keck asked the men to leave, one man told Keck he should go instead. Keck told the agent he punched the man in the temple and the man fell backward, then he said he punched him three more times as the victim fell to the ground.
As Keck dragged the unconscious man about 75 feet, he yelled to his companions to "get his friend," the criminal complaint states. The two men who were beaten also were robbed of $1,800, their keys, cell phones and other property. The victims both had broken noses, bruises, lacerations requiring staples and both were treated at a local hospital, the special agent said.
District Attorney David Roger has filed an additional charge of manslaughter against Keck in the death of his estranged wife's fetus after he carved a hole in the door of her home with a chain saw and sprayed gunfire through it, killing her new boyfriend as well as the unborn baby.
Police said Wednesday that the woman, Angelique Keck, is recovering from the gunshot wounds.
Police arrested Keck, of Las Vegas, Monday on a charge of murder with a deadly weapon and a charge of attempted murder. He has also been charged with battery with use of a deadly weapon resulting in substantial bodily harm and burglary while in possession of a deadly weapon. He was booked into the Clark County Detention Center, police said.
The manslaughter charge was added under a state law that protects unborn children who move in the mother's womb.
The incident happened at 1:10 a.m. Monday, when security officer Matthew Staley was surveying the grounds at the Villa Cordoba Apartments at 2800 Eastern Ave., according to a police report. Staley told police he heard what sounded like a power drill coming from one of the buildings.
When Staley investigated the noise, he saw a man dressed in black, including boots and a cap, standing at the door of an apartment holding an assault-type rifle in his hands, the report said.
Police reported that as Staley made eye contact with the man, he pointed the weapon at Staley and said in a loud voice, "I wouldn't do that."
As Staley turned and ran down the stairs he heard numerous shots fired and ran for cover in the next building, then called 911, the report said.
Inside the apartment, 26-year-old Jonathan Lestelle had been sitting on a couch with his girlfriend, Angelique Keck, who is still married to William Keck, police said.
When William Keck sawed a hole through the door with a chain saw and sprayed the room with gunfire from the assault rifle, the couple on the couch ran for a rear bedroom, police said. However, Lestelle and Angelique Keck each were shot several times, police said. Lestelle died at the scene.
Angelique Keck told police she had separated from her husband and that he had threatened to shoot her in the stomach and kill the baby, the report said.
Angelique Keck was taken to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center and is recovering from her injuries.
William Keck lives in an apartment with his brother in the eastern valley, where police found him. Police said when officers read Keck his Miranda rights he told them he did not understand, so they spent some time explaining, the report said.
Wiliam Keck told police he loves his wife deeply, but that he has had other girlfriends since the separation, the police report said. He also told police he is taking several medications.
Keck told police that he doesn't remember being at the apartment complex where his wife and her boyfriend were living. Keck said he owned an assault rifle, but had given it to friends, as he is not allowed to be around guns. His rifle was in the hands of a friend named "Fox," he told police.
Under a search warrant, police found an empty box of rifle bullets in Keck's apartment.
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Billy was an undermedicated man, this is what happens when you trust a Dr. with your disease this man was a good freind. check out helpshaneheal.com would a dude like this do somthing like this on his own, hell no it was the new medication seroquel that did this and its undisclosed side effects, insomnia, lunacy. sorry it had to be this way bill
I couldn't agree more, justadude, Billy is a really great guy and an irreplaceable friend. It's a damn shame that the people who don't actually know him are going to think of him as nothing more than a monster. They're going to assume he's a cold-blooded killer and not someone who was sick and wasn't getting the real help he needed... This whole situation is a terrible tragedy and I just pray to God that there's healing for everyone involved.
I've said my "peace" on the issue. This is a failure of the medical system, everyone is a victim in this. They've been experimenting with him and various drugs for a few months now and I guess these really did him in. This doctor is responsible, and whomever he is, he needs to be investigated. What kind of person puts someone on this type of drug after one session? without research?
I hope the media realizes, this is a deeply involved situation and there are more than 2 sides, this involves everyone who ever knew all parties involved. In the end, it will come out that Billy has more friends than enemies... and that horribly biased newspaper, the REVIEW JOURNAL, needs to stop deleting the comments of those who support Billy. Just as the press is free, we are free to say how we feel - in support and in opposition.
this was a horrible horrible horrible tragedy. Jonathan did not deserve this. he was a good friend and person. his life was cut so short. it's a shame. Billy deserves life without the possibility of parole or the death penalty. A life for a life. that's fair.
Yeah well you can tell that to the 3 year old boy your friend Billy has left now with no father! No one mentioned that did they? hmmm interesting how you can twist things to make them seem in your favor. A crime this vicious and obviously premeditated deserves the death penalty.
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Actually, if this guy was on Seroquel, there is a problem. My wife was on that stuff and it is straight up TOXIC. Never mind the fact that the stuff makes you either an insomniac or it makes you sleep for 12 hours a day. There's worse stuff about it too. The stuff is literally toxic. No real doctor is supposed to perscribe this garbage any more. From what I've heard from other doctors, it is extremely outdated and just bad news. To even try to quit taking the medicine puts the patient at risk for everything from death by various methods to detached retinas. I feel bad for the man, due to his situation, but that in no way excuses this horrible act. While the medicine might have made him slightly unbalanced, I don't think it would make him literally into a chainsaw/assault rifle wielding maniac.
azsk "White trash."
Really? That's the best you can do?
I looked at the web site this guy created for his friend. Seemed like a pretty together dude to me. Can't imagine "white trash" having that much initiative or caring. In fact, if you read through the posts he made you can see him start to go off into deep depression just before the blog ends. Seems to me a drug problem would be reflected throughout the log, rather than only right at the end.
In any case, I can not imagine the anguish everyone involved must feel. My prayers go out to every soul impacted by this tragedy. My heart breaks just to think about it.
This is Billy's interests page and worth checking out:
http://www.spock.com/Billy-Keck-N5qhY1QO...
"I like guns"..."If you have a death wish, I can help you scratch that itch"..."likes chainsaws"
This murder seems like it has been a fantasy of Billy's for a while. This web page, for me, is proof that the murder was premeditated. I think that this scenario would have occurred regardless of the medication.
Do booking officers just have a knack for getting the worst looking mugshot, or do people being booked think it's cool to try and look really bad.
That mugshot just gives me the creeps, and I keep hearing some voice saying, "French fried pataters".
First and foremost, Mr. Keck is a murderer -- don't lose sight of that fact! William is solely responsible for his actions, not his doctor, not the medicine and certainly not the medical system.
You victimize Mr. Keck to deflect blame; stop making excuses, it is pathetic. The victims are those who were terrorized by William. Let us not forget the murdered father, the murdered fetus and woman who nearly died.
I find it appalling that people defend "such a nice guy". Mr. Keck is a cold-blooded murder, no assumptions are necessary.
What about the federal AND drunk driving charges, was it the 'medicine" then too?
Im amazed that even in today's day and age we are trivially improved from the witch hunters of our past. I have known billy for about 2 years, and although he had problems, as we all do, I believe he is a good person. Now Im not justifying or excusing what he has done. There were many losses, and I have seen Caine, and got along with him well, I truly feel for Angel, as she lost more than I or anyone else living can fathom. To address the folks looking for death... well, best put, your thirst for blood is a reciprocation of what you believe billy had, and by extension, no better than him. Martin Luther King said "a society who lives by the code of hammurabi, is a society which is blind and deaf" I bring these things into light because they need to be. Want to help billy, caine and angel? understand why what happened happened. Ask yourself this, if you were violently murdered, would you want your loved one's to make it a better place so it wont happen again, or to wage a war that will never end and destruction is the common place. I have said enough, and invite those to comment on my take. I can assure you that no matter how disgusting the comments, that I would never kill anyone unless it is to directly defend my life or those that I love as they would be in danger, not take retaliation ex post facto.
I'll will pay the Sun directly to stop putting this mug shot on the front page! PLEASE!
his three year old adorable little boy is going to grow up without a father, never knowing truly how much his father loved him, and never knowing what an amazing man his father was. he'll only be told how a man with a gun shot his father to death cutting his life short. he'll have to grow up watching other boys play ball and other things with their dad's and know he'll never have that because someone got jealous and decided to kill his father. Thank god this little boy wasn't with them at the apartment. he would have been killed as well. he just shot into the apartment, he could have and probably would have killed him. an innocent three year old adorable little boy, Did anyone ever think of that?
Sorry but I call it like I see it - a woman is married to one guy, pregnant by another (married to someone else guy) the shooter loves his wife but is seeing other women ..........sounds like they're all made to star on the Jerry Springer show. Whatever the guys problem with his meds was doesn't seem to have anything to do with the fact that a whole bunch of 'married' people take marriage so lightly that they'd be dating and pregnant by others before the ink on the divorce papers is dry. Try cleaning up the first mess before starting another.
Hey happyviolent, its clear you are defending a violent person because you yourself is violent. I dont know any of the persons involved and its clear to me the guy planned this attack. As for his supporters out there, were you also with him in AZ when he beat and robbed some innocent people? Is that the meds? What is he being treated for? Bi-polar? Im sure at one time you guys had some laughs, but he is not the person you thought he was.
He is a sick Fu*%...If he ever gets bail he wont be going back to Jail!!!!!I know that...... Ahhh the things I would love to do 2 him
When he was arrested his statements about'taking medications' was an attempt at an alibi, he knew what he did and he knew the consequences of his actions. His mug shot is another self made 'face' to make people believe he is mental. It is all an act of which he can rehearse until his final days.
I have a better idea, let's take all the things that happened in my life like my biogocial mother putting me up for adoption and not allowing me a life with her, and killing her. seems very logical to the common consensus with the majority of what people are posting here. It makes me sick that Im even classified as the same specie as you all. BURN ALL WITCHES!!!!!!!!!!!
So are you upset that some people want him sentenced to death? You dont make any sense (nothing_special) and please get help if you are hurting about being adopted. That is how we address issues before they become a problem and you hurt someone or yourself.
"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only comment I want to direct to any post directly is to nospinhere...
"Hey happyviolent, its clear you are defending a violent person because you yourself is violent"
Happyviolentine must be violent because it's in their screen name... Well then Batman wants you to know that he is sorry your washing machine is broken 'nospinhere'
I didn't realize you had the power to convict Keck for that crime in AZ without a trial. I must have missed that change in the Innocent until proven guilty thing. A few more people like you 'nospin' and we wouldn't even have a backlog in the criminal justice system. You're just what we need... people who make snap calls without due process and fact finding.
Here is all I know to be true about the events of this past Monday.
It was a tragedy.
As time goes by I'm believe we will find entire tragedy was a perfect storm that built up over time... an unfortunate series of events, deeds and misdeeds that has ruined many lives and changed countless others. I don't think this will be as clear-cut as black and white, good vs.evil, or right and wrong.
Wow I can't believe I wasted so much energy typing that response to a pointless attack on an opinion poster. That's energy I could have and really should have used to make my world a better place. Maybe that's what we should all do... Find a way to make OUR world a better place. A place where tragedies like this are stopped long before they happen.
yeah, yeah that's funny, "what a nice guy what a great friend" because hmmmm....history of violent crimes and reckless behavior sound like a really "nice guy".
in my own experience with billy he stole something of mine from some boxes i was keeping at a mutual friends house (which he did return after lying about having it). you can call it a problem of medication or you can call it what it is. this guy had no societal boundries a true antisocial who thought the rules and laws didn't apply to him.
billy and ainjil had been separated for a while. so cut the "jilted lover" crap, this was not a fresh wound. billy had dated other women. people want to boo hoo about the medication the dr.s put him on. what about all the "medication" he was putting himself on... all you goooooood friends of billy know exactly what i am talking about....booze, speed anyone? and don't even try to deny it because you all know he was spun.
how dare you defend him, as though her moving on with her life is some sort of viable reason for some one to savagely and premeditatedly murdered her boyfriend and her unborn child and tried like hell to make sure that ainjil was dead too but he took everything she had( he made the chainsaw himself and i know that some of you "good friends" saw his handy work before he went hunting) it doesn't get much more premeditated than that ohhh unless you count calling her at work and telling her that he was going to do it.)
anyone who defends this coward is just as sick and twisted as he is and you know it.
all of you kids need to take a look at your lives and lay off the drugs you people aren't fooling anyone.
Irreplaceable Friend?? Man, .... you! Had a state welfare based mental health system put this ABORTION ABSCONDING (yes I mean from 1982) monster on Prolixen or Haldol D about 8 years ago he'd be in a strait jacket by now being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer... and Jonothan & Angel would be celebrating their new life together with a new life on the way. Instead because of this guy, Jon's gone & her life is destroyed. Maybe I didn't realize the neccessity of psyc meds formulated in reality with population control in mind (shorten lifespans by diminishing internal organ strength and/or cause perm blindness, numbness, etc) before but I do now. I just hope the psychiatrist who FAILED is left homeless, eating digestive blocking procces food instead of caviar & grapes waiting on busses with the title "MR" not "DR" for life... & Jonathan & Angelique's family awarded his precious Audi/Mercedez & mansion!
What I really wish is I get to see your "Irreplaceable Friend"'s mom break into screaming tears as a blue syrenge puts this psycho f... to sleep PERMANENTLY in Carson City someday. It's bad enough I won't get to see the shadows drag his soul down into hell.
r: http://media.lasvegassun.com/media/pdfs/...
This says it all. And who go to the beach of Lakemead and drink with their daughter thats also in this above link
plus read the end thats brutal
I think they have anger issues
not to say knowing Billy and Angel in real life this type of behavior was withnessed a decade ago in Billy and Fox and all they hang out with I am sure Billy's latest myspace girlfriends may have something against me saying this but they are just bitter cause he f them and loved his wife but all in all he was a angry person back 10 years and still is to this day.
added to the above sorry for the poor grammer but grrrr
look at the above people writting in on here the girls and then look on Billys top 8 friends list
that will say it there plus read the comments he left on their pages and they left on his
in your spare time that is
just goes to show that people will stone those they don't agree with. I don't need any help with being adopt. I actually a lot happier that imaginable with with my biological mother. With that being said, I didn't have a choice, my biological mother did, and I think she made the best decision she could given the circumstances. I am not enraged about that, if it weren't for my "dad" or "mom" I wouldn't be the person I am today. I am very happy for the person I am today regardless of what happened. for if it weren't for the influences I have dealt with my parents, or not so, it constructs what a person is who they will help be.; hence my previous posts.... the things I have read are exclusively with hatred and macabre. Normally I reside in these arenas, not because I think they're "fun" or the greatest arenas to be in, but that's where Im most comfortable in, and that's because human kind has laid out where it's interests are... not what's good for the community, but what's good for themselves. It's a sad day when humanity shows it's rage over a violent act on one indecent monstrocity, rather than the indecency it shows for it's constituents each and every day. I told my mother about this, and I told her as a living person I would much rather her find an area where she can prevent this from happening, by listening, understanding, and perpetuating acceptance, rather than defiance. she like most of you want to see people burned at the stake. so blood thirsty. So I ask this to who read this... anyone who has defied you or who thought differently from you, please feel free as the majority of posts here, and kill those people....... when you recognize it is a selfish as, just like billy's ask yourself, are the people who you think will support you when the timer ticks on you? (mind you I have 3 nieces and a nephew, and I would not ask for a bloodbath, I would ask for an answer)
Ohhhh, sure, because he should totally not be held accountable for his actions. No one wants to see this guy burn at the stake but, I am sure, would like to see him spend the rest of his life in jail. He brutally murdered someone and an unborn child, he ruined someone's life to a degree that neither you or I can ever comprehend because we have no point of reference for the magnitude of that pain, loss, suffering and sorrow. The hate that you site stared with the initial act of violence which came from Billy. People keep saying "It was mis-medication, he was sick." well, no kidding, obviously he is sick, it is more than apparent that something is not ticking quite right in Billy's little head.
Anyone who acts in such a manner is sick and disturbed I don't think that anyone has argued that point. I think it would be an enormous disservice to Billy to not sentence him in a manner which is appropriate to the crime. It would be a shame for Billy not to suffer the consequences of his actions. If every killer was let off the hook because they were "sick" what would our society look like? They are all sick.
I don't know what this has to do with your adoption dude, but if you think that it is comparable to this situation in any form you may want to seek therapy and maybe you should consider retaking 5th grade english.
Toes: thank you for understanding the points I was addressing. Im not saying dont have a punishment that doesn't fit the crime, but people generally as sheep will react is a very irrational fashion, as we have seen in may earlier posts. as far as equating to being adopted, much like Caine's son, he does not have a choice in the situation, much like I did not, nor did angel or caine. people stating that taking another person's life for this lack of choice I feel is directly relational on a logical level to those who dont have a choice. Nothing more, nothing less. <EOF>
I would like to point out that guy that started this discussion, Justadude, made the following comment about this subject on a another Sun Article;
"This is a fact that psyhciatric meds need to be monotored, in fact this is seroquel and the dr. who took billy off his "other" meds and dosed him with a mood stabilizer is responsible oh ya im sure kaine ran his mouth too....."
Really? Oh so it not Billy's fault that at 1am in the morning he grabbed a chainsaw and a automatic weapon and DROVE to their house, killed Caine, his unborn child, and almost killed Ainjil. What was I thinking! Cause you know all that kind of sounded like PREMEDITATED murder to me. Thanks for clearing that up.
At the end of the day, Billy made a decision to do what he did. Now Billy may have been a nice guy I don't know but what I do know is that he decided to kill two people and seriously injury another and for that there will be a price to pay. Stop trying to make excuses for his actions. Oh and blaming Caine in anyway for what happened only proves your a gutless scumbag.
Happy Violentine - the name of a song by Miss Kittin. I liked the clever play on words. But since some of you are GRABBING at straws.... then let's just lay this one out.
I hate children. Women fought waaayyyy too hard to see something like this constitute a "manslaughter" charge. If you open up this door, you might as well convict every abortion clinic doctor and woman who's ever had an abortion... NOW BEFORE YOU CONTINUE with personal feelings on the subject - it's perfectly friggin legal to get an abortion. What the system is NOW trying to do, is pick apart ways to break that down and make it illegal... again... then we can venture down back alleys in TJ with coat hangers... because a. it's gonna get done SOME how and b. that's sooo much safer *not enough sarcasm.*
My friend.... is dead, he's gone... he'll never be back. What I care about now.... is proper justice - and that can only be this result: Billy is institutionalized and medicated for however long it takes.
I'm wholeheartedly against the death penalty... and I don't want to see someone who obviously needs treatment, get thrown into gen pop for the rest of his life.
We'd all like to think it was as simple as... a person commits a crime, a person gets punished. It's not, it's not anymore.
Not that many years ago, people were slapped with a label and thrown into prison and are NOW having their cases reviewed and released because of this.
Thanks to technology - we might have a better understanding of what's up.
Now... I have to mourn the death of my friend, because he's not in that human shell anymore, he was gone the moment they put him on seroquel, and I saw that weeks ago - I just never thought it would end up like this.
This has taught me to be more cautious at the doctor's office, as should you all.
At this point, all of the cards will play out - justice will be done and everything happens for a reason.
As for these petty arguments.
Stalemate.
Let's just say that this is sending chills down my spine... I spent most of my young adulthood with all of these people. Angelique was my tattoo artist, I have two rather large tattoos that were done by her back when my boyfriend was apprenticing at that particular shop. I remember her boyfriend Billy and when they got married, everyone thought it was a bad idea. We all thought he was a little wacky but I never knew he was THIS wacky. I remember when he was talking about purchasing a shotgun. This must have been 4 or so years ago now.
Now the other eerie part is that I was friends with Cane, known years ago as Spooky John... He worked at a place I frequented as a teenager. I knew his wife, his friends. I remember when his first son was born.
Icing on the cake, I used to live two buildings down from her in that exact apartment complex with two room mates. I'd been in Angeliques apartment...
I haven't spoken to any of these people in a few years because life just got too busy and when you grow up, you drift in other directions. Hindsight I could have never fathomed something like this would happen, especially so horrible.
Things like this belong in fiction, not close to home.
I think the death sentence would be too easy a get out for Billy. I want him to rot in prison for all of eternity forced to think about what he's done.
Why Billy?
:(
This pictures doesn't even look like you.
This is NOT the Billy I know.
This is not Billy.
nothing_special-
Your point was really convoluted and unclear.
hey this is a friend of billy's--i haven't seen him for a few years, but he would remember me. found out about this crazy stuff recently--can anybody out there tell me what's happening to him right now? been looking for him on the internet, can't find him at ccdc etc. please hit me up at mr.elad23@gmail.com