Casey Jones Kindt will be sentenced in Seward County District Court on a second-degree murder charge and additional felony and misdemeanor charges May 12 after accepting a plea agreement on Feb. 5.
Kindt had been charged with first-degree murder for the 2025 murder of Jamie Hagen in her Seward home.
Kindt, now 55, was arrested after law enforcement was called to Hagen’s Seward home on the 600 block of North Second Street at 11:46 p.m. Feb. 8, 2025. He was leaving the home when they arrived and suffered what law enforcement said appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Jamie Hagen, 36, was found deceased with multiple gunshot wounds. A juvenile on the scene had called 911 and was not injured.
Hagen and Kindt had previously been in a relationship and Hagen had been granted a protection order against Kindt.
Seward County District Court records show that Kindt entered a plea of no contest to the second-degree murder charge as part of the agreement, as well as to multiple charges within three cases filed against him.
The judge ruled him guilty on all charges. The plea agreement eliminates a trial that was to have begun March 17.
The second-degree murder charge alone carries a possible sentence of 20 years to life.
Kindt also faces a sentence of five to 50 years for a Class 1C felony charge of using a firearm to commit a felony, a minimum of three to five years for each of two charges of possession of a firearm by a prohibited individual, zero to 20 years for a Class 2A felony burglary charge, and zero to three years for a Class 3A felony charge of committing child abuse intentionally but without injury.
Court documents indicate the child abuse charge alleges Kindt knowingly and intentionally placed a minor child in a situation that endangered his or her life or physical or mental health but did not result in death or serious injury.
The plea arrangement also affects earlier charges filed against him in two cases for terroristic threats, a 3A felony that carries a zero to three-year sentencing option, a misdemeanor third-degree domestic assault charge that can carry a sentence of up to one year and a misdemeanor child abuse charge that carries a sentence up to one year in one case.
In the other case, Kindt faced a Class 4 felony charge of tampering with a witness that could carry a sentence of up to two years and a misdemeanor violation of protection order charge that could carry a sentence of up to one year.
Hagen had sought a protection order in December of 2024 after domestic violence, terroristic threats and child abuse charges had been filed against Kindt in Seward County Court. His bond on those charges was originally set at $50,000, then lowered to $25,000. His bond was filed Feb. 7, 2025.
Kindt was hospitalized in Omaha following the shooting and was taken into police custody to be housed in the Seward County jail on Feb. 14, 2025.
The Nebraska State Patrol led the investigation with assistance from the Seward Police Department, Seward County Sheriff’s Office and Seward County Attorney’s Office.
Kindt has been held without bond since his April 2025 arraignment.
