Kayce Simms biography: 13 things about Mount Hope, West Virginia man

Kayce Ryan Simms is an American man from Mount Hope, Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. Aside from Mount Hope, he has lived in other parts of West Virginia including Fayetteville.
2. He went to Oak Hill High School in Oak Hill, West Virginia.
3. He is Howard Lee Simms Jr.‘s son.
4. His paternal grandparents are Howard “Duke” Lee Simms Sr. and Constance Bowles.
5. He has three older brothers namely Kaleb Andrew Sparks, Kolten Shayne Sparks and Kolby Lee Jarrett Simms.
6. He was 17 years younger than Ashtin Everette Owens of Scarbro, Fayette County, West Virginia.
7. On December 29, 2020, his first son was born.
8. On June 1, 2021, his father died at age 41.
9. On November 20, 2022, he shot Owens twice in Glen Jean, Fayette County after Owens got into an argument with his grandmother. Owens died in a hospital in Charleston, Kanawha County.
10. On December 2, 2022, he was taken into custody without incident, charged with the first-degree murder of Owens and booked into the Southern Regional Jail in Beaver, Raleigh County, West Virginia.
11. On September 11, 2023, he turned 21.
12. On March 21, 2024, his murder trial started before Circuit Judge Thomas H. Ewing.
13. On March 26, 2024, he was convicted of first-degree murder and use or presentment of a firearm during the commission of a felony.