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Jury convicts man in killing of witness, fiancee
The Associated Press
Issue date: 5/8/09 Section: News
CENTENNIAL, Colo. - An Arapahoe County jury has convicted a man accused of ordering the deaths of a witness and the witness' fiancee in Aurora in 2005.
Robert Ray, 23, could face the death penalty when a sentencing hearing begins Monday.
He was convicted Thursday of 11 counts - including first-degree murder, conspiracy and solicitation to commit first-degree murder, and intimidating a witness - in the deaths of Javad Marshall-Fields and Vivian Wolfe, both 21.
Marshall-Fields and Wolfe were shot and killed while driving down an Aurora street in June 2005, a week before Marshall-Fields was to testify against Ray in the shooting death of another man, Gregory Vann, at an Aurora park in 2004.
Ray's friend Sir Mario Owens has been sentenced to death in the couple's slayings. A third man, Parish Carter, is awaiting trial.
Prosecutors said Ray planned and ordered the killings of the couple.
Defense attorney Pete Hedeen argued during the trial that Owens acted without direction from Ray. He said police had little, if any, evidence directly linking his client to the slayings.
Owens and Ray were convicted in Vann's death.
Robert Ray, 23, could face the death penalty when a sentencing hearing begins Monday.
He was convicted Thursday of 11 counts - including first-degree murder, conspiracy and solicitation to commit first-degree murder, and intimidating a witness - in the deaths of Javad Marshall-Fields and Vivian Wolfe, both 21.
Marshall-Fields and Wolfe were shot and killed while driving down an Aurora street in June 2005, a week before Marshall-Fields was to testify against Ray in the shooting death of another man, Gregory Vann, at an Aurora park in 2004.
Ray's friend Sir Mario Owens has been sentenced to death in the couple's slayings. A third man, Parish Carter, is awaiting trial.
Prosecutors said Ray planned and ordered the killings of the couple.
Defense attorney Pete Hedeen argued during the trial that Owens acted without direction from Ray. He said police had little, if any, evidence directly linking his client to the slayings.
Owens and Ray were convicted in Vann's death.
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