Man Who Shot Siblings Is Behind Bars But Kim Kardashian Wants to Release Him

Siblings Quanita and Quentin Reeves have spent most of their lives trying to forget about the horrors they endured the night of Feb. 13, 1994, in Bucyrus, Ohio, when a gunman entered their cousin’s house, shot and wounded them, and killed three others.

“We grew up scared of different things that other kids might not have been afraid of,” says Quentin, now 33, who battles depression and PTSD because of the shooting that took the lives of his aunt and two cousins. “You don’t know who you can trust.”

However, letting the past remain in the past is hard for the siblings because of the new Spotify podcast, Kim Kardashian’s The System: The Case of Kevin Keith,which rose to the number one spot on the charts after its Oct. 3 debut, beating out Joe Rogan’s and Meghan Markle’s chart-topping podcasts.

Kardashian, who is studying to become a lawyer and has been fighting for prison reform for several years, partnered up with longtime criminal justice reform advocate and producer Lori Rothschild Ansaldi to scrutinize the case.

During the eight episodes, Kardashian delves into how Keith, now 59, ended up in prison on charges related to the shooting and killing of three people including a 4-year-old girl, and seriously wounding three others, including Quanita and Quentin.

Keith was arrested on Feb. 15, 1994 when he was 30 at the time and convicted shortly after in May 1994. Keith was charged with three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder. On June 1, 1994, he was sentenced to death.

In 2010, after Keith had unsuccessfully appealed his case many times, then-Gov. Ted Strickland commuted his death sentence to life without parole, which gave him hope that he could one day be freed from prison.

“The whole situation sucks,” Kardashian says in the podcast. “I don’t think Keith was given a fair shot.”

One reason Kardashian is taking a fresh look at the case is because prosecutors never presented any physical evidence linking him to the crime, she says in the podcast.

“He was never questioned by law enforcement,” she says. “Ever.”

“I had the pleasure of meeting Kevin Keith through a video visit & was so impressed w/ the amazing programs he created in prison to help others inside better themselves!,” she wrote in another Tweet. “So much evidence has been uncovered proving Kevin’s innocence. I hope justice is served soon & he is released,” she tweeted.

Quanita and Quentin say they hope Keith never leaves prison and want their side of the story to be heard.

“The fact that they say they got new evidence or whatever, none of that really matters to me,” says Quanita, 35, also a mother of four. “What matters is that I know that Kevin came through that door and he shot me. My story will not change.”

Quentin agrees that his story hasn’t changed, either, saying, “He did it. We saw him do it.”

At about 8:45 p.m. or so on Feb. 13, 1994, Quanita and Quentin, then 6 and 4, were at their cousin’s house in Bucyrus when they said Keith knocked at the door.

They both said Keith ordered everyone on the floor and then began shooting.

“I was scared,” Quentin recalls.

They both said they knew who Keith was. “We all knew who he was,” says Quentin. “He was my dad’s friend.”

While the Reeves were in Bucyrus that night, their home was in nearby Crestline, Ohio, says Quentin. “It’s a pretty small town, so everybody knew everybody,” he says. “I’ve been around him more than my sister has. Keith didn’t live too far up the street.”

Killed that night were the siblings’ aunt, Linda Chatman, 39, their cousin, Marichell Chatman, 24, and her daughter, Marchae Chatman, 4. Quanita was shot twice in the stomach and once in the arm and Quentin was shot in the stomach. Marichell’s boyfriend at the time, Rick Warren, was also wounded in the shooting.

After Quanita was injured, she somehow got up and looked out the window.

“Rick got out and was running and Keith chased after him,” she recalls. “I guess by the grace of God I got up and walked to the doorway where there was a chair sitting to the right of the door. As he is running after Rick, he looks over at the apartment and then he seen me and I got shot in my left arm. I was the first one found by the door.”

Both siblings spent months in the hospital recovering from their wounds. Quanita has permanent nerve damage on her left side. Quentin had parts of his intestine removed and needed a colostomy bag at one point.

The mental and emotional scars from that night have also lingered. Both siblings suffer from depression, anxiety and PTSD despite years of counseling.