Centennial – Prosecutors in Arapahoe County will seek the death penalty against two men accused of killing a witness in a murder case.
Sir Mario Owens and Robert Ray will face a possible death penalty in the slaying of Javad Marshall-Fields, District Attorney Carol Chambers said today.
Chambers would not talk about specifics of the case citing a gag order and her desire to try the case “in a court of law and not the media.”
Marshall-Fields was shot dead in June of 2005, along with his fiancee, Vivian Wolfe, both 22, just before he was scheduled to testify in a trial on the murder of Gregory Vann.
Vann, 20, was gunned down in an Aurora park on July 4, 2004.
In January, a jury found Owens guilty of first-degree murder in Vann’s death. Ray has been convicted of accessory in Vann’s murder.
Ray is serving a 108-year prison sentence and Owens will be given a mandatory life sentence in April for the death of Vann.
Police say Ray paid Owens and another man, Parish Carter, 4.5 ounces of cocaine to kill Marshall-Fields.
Carter has also been charged with murder but is being evaluated by the state on whether he’s mentally competent to stand trial.
