Case Moves Forward Against 71-Year-Old Charged With Murder
DENVER (AP/CBS4) - An Adams County judge says there's enough evidence to proceed with a first-degree murder charge against a 71-year-old man accused of shooting his ex-wife in the head at her office in Westminster.
Richard Paul Stewart is being held without bail in the death in April of Norma Stewart, 71, of Thornton, who filed for divorce from him in 2008 after more than 40 years of marriage. Arraignment is scheduled Sept. 6.
Stewart was shot in the head and killed on April 4 at the Edward Jones Investments office at 112th and Federal.
Westminster police Detective Steve Roll testified on Friday at Stewart's preliminary hearing that police tracked Stewart to Lubbock, Texas, after the shooting.
Roll said police there found a letter in his hotel room in which he told his sisters that since his arrest over domestic violence allegations more than two years earlier, he knew he would kill Norma Stewart.
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