SAN ANTONIO- Otis McKane is an accused cop killer who is fatigued with being called the villain. And in his first jailhouse interview since being arrested in the killing of San Antonio Police Detective Benjamin Marconi, the 31-year-old wanted to only talk about being shifted by the justice system.
"My character has always been demonized---put in the situation where I look like the bad guy. I look like the suspect," said McKane.
He's accused of the brazen murder of a SAPD detective Benjamin Marconi in a marked SAPD patrol car in front of public safety headquarters on November 20. The traffic stop was unrelated to the capital murder suspect.
Det. Marconi was shot twice in the head. Medical efforts to save the veteran policeman were fruitless. Video images of the man who SAPD believed carried out the callous crime gained national attention.
The next day Bexar County Courthouse records show McKane got married to Christian Chanel Fields.
"If they thought I was that person they would have took me that morning," he said. "I walked right past ten police. I had to go through the metal detector. I registered my name in the system to get married."
But his wedded bliss would be short. McKane was arrested and facing a capital murder charge before 5 p.m.
"I was upset. I lashed out at somebody that didn't deserve it," he said the night of his arrest.
Now, his recollection of those words has seemingly vanished. In fact, he refused to talk specifics about the case against him.
McKane-The city wants to know why, why, why? I wanna know why, why, why myself. I wanna know why people overlook my situation and put me straight to a situation where I'm demonized as a killer or as a cop killer...or whatever this situation they put me in.
Reporter-Are you a cop killer?
McKane-I'm not going to talk about anything to do with my case sir.
The husband, father and capital murder suspect says the system has victimized him. He claims he was wrongly pulled into a line up for a robbery suspect, had his identity snatched and forced to pay tickets where he was not the offender. McKane also claims SAPD never acted per his thoughts in an on-going custody clash with his baby's mother. He also alleged the woman's mother worked as a dispatch at SAPD.
The police department had not confirmed or denied the allegations at the time this article was written.
McKane-My Life is on the life. I refuse to put myself in a situation worse than I'm already in.
Reporter-Otis I don't want to come across as heartless but many people would say that should have thought about that before you pulled the trigger and shot that detective two times in the head. To come to me with a victimization speech as I believe you are and you're trying to protect your case is almost a further insult to the man you're accused of killing. you're talking about custody cases. Was it a custody case that made you snap and kill the police officer that morning. That's what I want to know.
McKane-I know that since 2012 i have been making police reports to see my son with the police in my face...in front of my son's mother's home and they did nothing about it.
He said he's nearly over trying to prove innocence because the system will just vilify him again.
"I'm not trying to be bad a guy," he said. "I'm not a bad guy sir."
Reporter-When you close your eyes---are you able to sleep and know that you didn't kill anybody? Or do you close your eyes at night and wake up to the nightmare of murder?
McKane-I close my eyes at night knowing that I could get killed by ten guards as soon as I say anything wrong to them. That's what I close my eyes to sirs. Whether I am innocent, at this point man, I can only hope the Lord protects me.