GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — The suspects, Kathryn Voight, Marquavis Benton, and Marckell Honeycutt, say they went with victim Brian Whitfield to his Buford area home to exchange sex for a gun.
“She said she was going to have sex with Mr. Whitfield in exchange for a 380 pistol.” said Detective CJ Flynn during a probable cause hearing for Voight Tuesday morning.
Voight’s attorney, Matt Crosby, tried to limit the damage from the confessions asking the detective “Is there any evidence that she fired a gun or aided in firing a gun?”
Flynn answered “No”.
The Whitfield family believes the three were involved but concocted the sex for gun story in an effort to make them look better.
“The family is going to have to deal with that, whether the truth ever comes out or not. We all believe what we believe based on how we know Brian,“ said Whitfield’s sister-in-law, Ana Whitfield after the court hearing.
Police say last month, the three suspects met Whitfield at a motel on Memorial Drive in DeKalb County.
Detective Flynn says video recordings taken in December the day Whitfield was killed show the group leaving the motel in Whitfield’s truck. Then after Whitfield was murdered outside his Flowery Branch Road home , the three suspects are seen arriving back in Whitfield’s truck and unloading the items that police believe were stolen in the robbery.
Police say that included a 60 inch TV, three guns, and some silver jewelry.
“At one point Mr. Benton and Ms. Voight go back to the truck and they are smiling and laughing and getting back into the victims truck and leaving in it," Det. Flynn said.
Whitfield’s truck was later found stripped and abandoned behind a vacant home in Atlanta.
Channel 2’s Gwinnett County bureau chief Tony Thomas also spoke with Whitfield’s estranged wife Shannon.
She said she doesn’t believe Whitfield would have been involved in any type of prostitution deal.
“That's one of the things we are having a hard time believing, because he is just not like that, “ Shannon Whitfield said.
Whitfield said while she was confident the courts system will hand down adequate sentences for the three suspects, she doesn’t know if all of her questions will ever be answered.
“I just want to know why? Did he know that he was about to die?” she said.