This site reported, in August of 2021, on the arrest of Brandon Dockery for the murder of Raymar Webb. Held in the Fayette County Detention Center, he has finally gone on trial.

Defendant apologizes for deadly Lexington shooting during his murder trial

By Taylor Six | Monday, August 24, 2026 | 1:00 PM EDT

The man charged with killing a Lexington father in a downtown parking lot testified at his own trial Monday, expressing remorse and saying the shooting was a “stain on him that will never go away.”

That won’t go away for Raymar Webb, either, because he’s been stone-cold graveyard dead for over five years now.

The murder trial for Brandon Dockery, 37, entered its second week Monday. Dockery also is charged with six counts of wanton endangerment of a police officer, being a felon in possession of a handgun, receiving stolen property and being a persistent felony offender.

The charges stem from two incidents in June and August 2021. The first was the murder of 30-year-old Raymar Webb in downtown Lexington. The second incident was a standoff with police and U.S. marshals in which Dockery allegedly fired three shots at officers.

Dockery shot and killed Webb in a downtown Lexington parking lot, on June 19, 2021. Defense attorneys do not dispute that Dockery committed the shooting, but they’ve asked jurors to consider his mental state before, during and after the Webb shooting.

Murder is a capital offense in the Bluegrass State, so perhaps Mr Dockery and his attorney are attempting to get a life sentence rather than death. But, even with a death sentence, the likelihood of Mr Dockery being executed is fairly small. However, a life sentence would put him in general population rather than the isolation of death row.

Here’s the law:

• KRS § 439.3401(3) A violent offender who has been convicted of a capital offense and who has received a life sentence and has not been sentenced to twenty-five (25) years without parole or imprisonment for life without benefit of probation or parole, or a Class A felony and receives a life sentence, or to death and his or her sentence is commuted to a life sentence shall not be released on probation or parole until he or she has served at least twenty (20) years in the penitentiary. Violent offenders may have a greater minimum parole eligibility date than other offenders who receive longer sentences, including a sentence of life imprisonment.
• (4) A violent offender with a sentence of a term of years shall not be released on probation, shock probation, parole, conditional discharge, or other form of early release until he or she has served at least eighty-five percent (85%) of the sentence imposed.

This was set in 2025, and subsection (4) is frequently referred to as Logan’s Law. Had it been in effect in 2010, Mr Dockery could not have murdered Mr Webb, because he would have still been in prison. Prior to the 2025 revision, felony offenders could be eligible for parole after having served just 20% of their sentences, and Mr Dockery:

was sentenced in 2012 to 45 years in prison after he admitted to lighting a Lexington apartment building on fire. The fire was set after he got into a fight with people in one of the apartments. He destroyed several apartments, killed pets and forced residents to flee the building. One jumped off a third-floor balcony.

Mr Dockery, who should have been locked up until November 19, 2055, was turned loose after serving just 10 years, 8 months. He was, according to the Herald-Leader, released on October 23, 2020, which was a week before his parole eligibility date, as stated in the parole information I screen captured. That he had a previous parole hearing deferred seems to indicate that the state parole board did have some discretion, but discretion or not, he was released very early from a 45-year sentence.

Cherish Derrickson, Mr Dockery’s attorney, is doing her job. That Mr Dockery is guilty is not in doubt, given that he admitted it in court, but Miss Derrickson is trying to get him the least punitive sentence possible. Currently 37-years-old, Mr Dockery has already spent five years behind bars prior to trial. We previously reported on Cody Arnett, released early after five felonies, who then went on to rape a Georgetown College coed at a time when he should have still been behind bars. We noted in November of 2021 that had the criminal justice system treated Aramis Murray seriously in the multiple times he had been arrested between July 27, 2017 and February 22, 2018, he might have been behind bars on April 23, 2018, the day he murdered Jason Lemer Smith, and wouldn’t now be looking at spending 25 years behind bars. Had the criminal justice system treated Mr Murray seriously, Mr Smith might still be alive today.

Mr Dockery must be treated as harshly as the law allows, because not doing so in the past has resulted in an innocent man being murdered. Beyond Mr Dockery as an individual, not treating criminals harshly enough has resulted in other victims being murdered and raped, and this site has mentioned only a couple of them.

My good friend Matt Van Swol frequently ends his tweets “We do not have to live this way!” For Raymar Webb, it should have been “We do not have to die this way.”