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WEBVTT >> I BASICALLY TOSSED HIM ANDHIS CHAIR OVER AND I KICKED HIM.AND HE WAS LAUGHING. REPORTER: THAT'S THE FIRST STORY49-YEAR-OLD JUSTIN KASE TOLDINVESTIGATORS FOLLOWING THEAPRIL 18 ATTACK OF MICHAEL RYANFLINCHUM.>> DO YOU REMEMBER HOW MANYTIMES YOU KICKED HIM?>> NO, I REMEMBER ONCE. REPORTER: KASE SAYS HE AND AGROUP OF FRIENDS WERECOOKING-OUT AT A HOME ON LOCUSTAVENUE WHEN HE EXCHANGED WORDSWITH FLINCHUM ABOUT AN EX.>> THEN HE GOES I'M GONNA BEATYOUR --AND THAT JUST CAUGHT ME WRONG.AND I GOT UP AND I SLAMMED HIMDOWN AND HE POPPED A BEER BOTTLEOVER MY HEAD.REPORTER: KASE IS ACCUSED OFKICKING FLINCHUM IN THE HEAD,MULTIPLE TIMES, WITH HISSTEEL-TOED WORK BOOTS.HE WAS INITIALLY CHARGED WITHASSAULT, BUT THAT CHARGE WASUPGRADED TO MURDER WHEN FLINCHUMDIED THE NEXT DAI WASN'T KICKING HIM LIKE,THIS IS YOUR FINAL DEATH BLOW.I'M KICKING HIM LIKE, SO YOU'REGOING TO KICK MY -- I DON'T THINK SO.REPORTER: KASE SAYS HE DIDN'TREALIZE SOMETHING WAS SERIOUSLYWRONG UNTIL HIS FRIENDS REACTED.AND THAT'S WHEN HIS STORY STARTSTO CHANGE.FLINCHUM, WHO HE SAID WASLAUGHING DURING THE ATTACK, ISNOW APPARENTLY UNCONSCIOUS ANDLYING IN A FETAL POSITION AROUNDA POTTED PLANT.>> THE LAST THINK I SAW WASDEBBIE TURNED HIM OVER AND

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It happened in the heat of the moment, that's what a Jeffersontown man said happened during a deadly attack. Justin Kase is charged with murder. “I basically tossed him and his chair over and I kicked him. And he was laughing,” Kase told investigators. That's the first story Kase, 49, told investigators following the April 18 attack of Michael Ryan Flinchum. “Do you remember how many times you kicked him?” an investigator asked. “No, I remember once,” Kase said. Kase said he and a group of friends were cooking-out at a home on Locust Avenue when he exchanged words with Flinchum about an ex. “Then he goes I'm gonna beat your (expletive removed). And that just caught me wrong. And I got up and I slammed him down and he popped a beer bottle over my head,” Kase said. Kase is accused of kicking Flinchum in the head multiple times with his steel-toed work boots. He was initially charged with assault, but that charge was upgraded to murder when Flinchum died the next day. “I wasn't kicking him like 'This is your final death blow.’ 'I'm kicking him like ‘So you're gonna kick my (expletive removed)? I don't think so,’ Kase said. Kase said he didn't realize something was seriously wrong until his friends reacted. That's when his story started to change. Flinchum, who he said was laughing during the attack, was apparently unconscious and lying in a fetal position around a potted plant. “He fell back, cowered down and went like this,” Kase said. “The last think I saw was Debbie turned him over and either attempting or giving him mouth to mouth.” Kase told police he left and went to his dad's house to change out of his beer covered clothes. He was arrested there just hours later. Kase is being held at Metro Corrections on a $100,000 bond.