FORT COLLINS — In a videotaped interview with a police investigator, Shawna Nelson repeatedly said she was confused over allegations she shot and killed Heather Garraus execution-style at a credit union in a strip mall in Greeley on Jan. 23, 2007.
“I don’t know, Greg … I don’t know,” Nelson told Greeley Police Detective Greg Tharp during a half-hour video shown to jurors this morning.
Nelson faces a first-degree-murder charge in connection with the death of Garraus, who was married to Nelson’s lover, Greeley Police Officer Ignacio Garraus.
Tharp testified there were plenty of rumors that Nelson — a Greeley Police dispatcher — and Ignacio Garraus were lovers. Still, Nelson — who was married to Weld County sheriff’s investigator Ken Nelson — had a good reputation as a dispatcher. “She was a great dispatcher, calm in a crisis,” Tharp testified.
In a setback for the prosecution, District Judge Roger Klein ruled this morning that jurors will not hear testimony about threats Nelson allegedly made against the wives of other men — including others police officers — with whom she had affairs.
