seen by the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette<\/a>.<\/p>\nThey had been married nearly 13 years.<\/p>\n
The ex-wife\u2019s new boyfriend, Michael Hogue, 51, was also busted over the murder, accused of pulling the trigger, according to the documents.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe still don\u2019t know exactly what happened when he got shot,\u201d Nikel\u2019s mother, Susan Kinderman, told News5.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe detectives have been pretty close-lipped on that, which is good, but we\u2019d still like to know exactly what happened and who did what,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was told by the detectives that there was some kind of altercation. Shots were fired, and Kevin was killed, and that\u2019s all we really know.\u201d<\/p>\n
The wrestler\u2019s ex-wife, Amanda Penny, has been charged in connection with his murder. U.S. Marshals Service<\/p>\n
Penny\u2019s new boyfriend, Michael Hogue, is believed by authorities to have pulled the trigger. U.S. Marshals Service<\/p>\n
Penny and Nikel were high school sweethearts who met in 2000 and had been married since August 2012 until \u201cthings just progressively got worse,\u201d the mom said.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was his first friend that he met in high school,\u201d the dead wrestler\u2019s mom said of her former daughter-in-law. \u201cThey were happy for a long time, and then I guess they started to grow apart,\u201d she said, saying that \u201cneither one of them were happy.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cI think they enticed Kevin to meet up with them,\u201d the mom alleged.<\/p>\n
Nikel wrestled in WWE NXT between 2012 and 2013. He later wrestled in Ozark Mountain Wrestling under the name Ivan Warsaw.<\/p>\n
Hogue was arrested in Fort Smith, Ark., while Penny was arrested in Rogers as an accomplice.<\/p>\n
Both have been charged with first-degree murder and face additional firearm possession charges. They are being held in the Benton County Jail ahead of a scheduled bond hearing on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former WWE wrestler\u2019s ex-wife has been charged with murdering him just three days after their divorce was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17748,238,9,11,10,58,23021],"class_list":{"0":"post-45201","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-arkansas","9":"tag-murders","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-us-news","14":"tag-wwe"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}