Adremy Dennis was born on January 23, 1976 in Ohio. By his teens, he was living in Akron, where his life began to drift into criminal activity and substance abuse. Limited information is publicly available about his childhood, but court records show that by age 18, he was already involved in alcohol and marijuana use, and at the time of the crime he had no steady employment and a history of minor run-ins with law enforcement.

On the night of June 4–5, 1994, Dennis and Anderson decided to rob people in the Akron, Ohio area. Around the same time, Kurt Kyle, a 29-year-old race car driver who had competed at Barberton Speedway, was hosting a cookout at his home after the race. Around midnight, Kyle walked guest Martin Eberhart to his car in the driveway.

At that moment, Dennis and Anderson approached. Anderson, wearing a green and orange Miami Hurricanes Starter jacket, pointed a handgun at Eberhart’s neck and demanded money. Eberhart handed over $15 from under his car seat. Meanwhile, Dennis, wearing a long dark overcoat, demanded money from Kyle. Kyle patted his pockets and told Dennis he had no cash.

Dennis then produced his sawed-off shotgun and shot Kyle in the head at point-blank range. The wound severed both carotid arteries, causing instant death from hypovolemic shock. The two assailants then fled the scene on foot.

Within days, Akron police received anonymous tips leading them to a house on Grand Avenue. Detectives, with the homeowner’s consent, found a Miami Hurricanes jacket, a long overcoat, a .25 caliber handgun, a 20-gauge sawed-off shotgun, and seven shotgun shells in the basement, directly linking Anderson to the crime. Anderson was taken into custody and gave information about the murder weapon.

Another tip led to Dennis’s arrest soon after. In his fourth statement to detectives, Dennis admitted planning robberies with Anderson and holding up Eberhart and Kyle. He also admitted pointing the shotgun at Kyle but claimed it “went off accidentally.” In a taped confession, Dennis said that he and Anderson had been drinking and using marijuana and that he fired three shots that night “accidentally.”

Despite this defense, the jury found Dennis guilty of aggravated murder for the slaying of Kyle and of attempted murder for a previous robbery attempt earlier that evening. He was sentenced to death and spent nearly a decade on Ohio’s death row.

During his time on death row, Dennis repeatedly argued that his victim shared responsibility for his own death because he “did not cooperate.” These comments, quoted by newspapers, were widely condemned as showing a lack of remorse.

On October 13, 2004, Dennis was executed by lethal injection at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, becoming the 15th person executed in the state since the death penalty was reinstated in 1981. His last meal was the same as the prison’s standard fare that day: a chicken patty with potatoes and gravy, green beans, marble cake, milk, and fruit punch.