Man suspected of shooting dead San Antonio police officer got married ONE DAY after the killing 

  • Otis Tyrone McKane has been charged in the execution-style death of Texas detective Benjamin Marconi
  • The morning after the shooting, McKane married a woman at the county courthouse
  • He was arrested seven hours later
  • The bride, Christian Chanel Fields, owned the car that McKane was driving at the time of his arrest 
  • A woman and child were in the car with him, but it's unclear if this was his new bride and her child

By Associated Press and Kiri Blakeley For Dailymail.com

Published: 15:38 EST, 22 November 2016 | Updated: 22:48 EST, 22 November 2016

'Upset': Otis Tyrone McKane, 31, said Monday his shooting of San Antonio detective Benjamin Marconi on Sunday was because he was 'upset' about a child custody battle

County records show that the man arrested in the fatal shooting of a San Antonio detective got married in the hours after the officer was killed.

A copy of a marriage certificate obtained by The Associated Press shows that 31-year-old Otis Tyrone McKane married a woman Monday morning at the Bexar County Courthouse. He was arrested later that day.

Investigators say 50-year-old Detective Benjamin Marconi was shot Sunday while sitting in his patrol car writing a traffic ticket. 

McKane was apprehended when his car was stopped on an interstate. He told reporters he was angry about a child-custody fight and 'lashed out at somebody who didn't deserve it.'

McKane, apologized during an exchange with reporters as he was being led Monday to the Bexar County jail. He's charged with capital murder.

The bride is identified as Christian Chanel Fields by MySanAntonio.com. She also reportedly owns the white Buick the suspect was driving at the time of his arrest.

Fields has a criminal history. She was convicted on felony theft charges in 2010 in Houston and given two years probation, according to KENS5.

Christian Chanel Fields, above, married suspect Otis McKane the morning after the shooting

Fields, (mug shot left), reportedly has a young daughter. McKane was driving her white Buick when he was arrested for the shooting

Marconi, a father of two, was writing a traffic ticket in his car outside police headquarters on Sunday when he was shot twice in the head

Friend Michael Bobo (pictured) said that the victim was the type who would never demean anyone

According to the outlet, McKane was snagged by police at 4.20pm, a mere seven hours after his marriage, which was performed by Judge Walden Shelton at the county courthouse.

McKane was arrested in the Buick with a woman and two-year-old child in the car - the woman has not yet been identified.

According to Fields' Facebook page, she does have a young daughter. 

The slain San Antonio police detective was a genuine and generous man who took seriously his job of protecting the community both on duty and off, his friends said.

Detective Benjamin Marconi's immediate family members declined to comment, but a friend, Mike Bobo, who owns a deli in San Antonio, said Marconi never wavered from doing what was right.

'You come across people in your life that will judge or demean or say things about other people jokingly or not,' Bobo said Monday. 'He would never be that person.'

Marconi, 50, the father of two grown children, was fatally shot Sunday as he sat in his patrol car writing a traffic ticket.  

Marconi was writing out a traffic ticket when he was shot dead in his squad car by a driver who pulled up from behind (pictured: police at the scene on Sunday)

Former state Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, a longtime friend of Marconi, told the San Antonio Express-News that the officer always kept safety in mind and would threaten to take the car keys of people at bars he deemed unfit to drive.

'He was always the first one to tell somebody, 'I'm taking your car keys away. Time to stop.' He never stopped being the protector, even in a social situation,' Van de Putte told the newspaper.

At times he would pass along advice to her grandchildren.

'He was so good with little ones. He would say, "You make good choices, because I have to deal with people that don't make good choices, and then they have to go to the big timeout. You know what the big timeout is, don't you?''' she said.

Marconi's funeral is scheduled for Monday morning at the Community Bible Church on Loop 1604 in northern San Antonio. The funeral will be followed by cremation. 

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