A Thornton man was arrested Monday afternoon on charges of traveling more than 900 miles to central Arkansas to shoot his recently remarried ex-wife through a window last week.
Rodney Lee Jones, 47, is awaiting extradition to Van Buren County, Ark., on a warrant accusing him of premeditated murder.
“We called him, he came in and we arrested him,” said Thornton police officer Matt Barnes.
A woman at the home on Starlight Road in Thorntondeclined to comment this afternoon. Records show Jones was a Colorado native.
Jones was questioned by both local authorities and Arkansas investigators, but Barnes would not elaborate on the findings of those interrogations.
Orzona Fischer, 33, was killed Friday night at the home in Clinton, which she shared with her new husband, Lynn Fischer. The two were married four months ago.
“She was cutting my hair, and the bullet came through the window and hit her in the back, and she went down,” Lynn Fischer told Little Rock TV station KATV7.
“She thought she was in electrical shock, but it wasn’t, because I saw the bullet and the blood.”
Fischer and Jones were divorced in April, public records show. They were married in Florida in April 2000, records show, when he was 38 and she was 24. The couple lived for a time in Port St. Lucie on the Atlantic coast 114 miles north of Miami.
Fischer and Jones’ three young children were at home at the time of the shooting, local prosecutor Marcus Vaden told the Associated Press.
Vaden said the divorce had been contentious.
“I don’t think he just flipped out,” Vaden told the AP. “Obviously, driving from Denver down here … he knew what he did.”
Jones has not yet waived his extradition rights, Barnes said, which could slow his return to Arkansas.
Joey Bunch: 303-954-1174 or jbunch@denverpost.com
