AURORA, Colo.—Jury selection is again under way in Arapahoe County in a trial stemming from the 2005 shootings deaths of two people, one of whom authorities say witnessed an earlier slaying.
Prosecutors said Thursday the trial of Robert Ray, 23, is scheduled to begin April 8.
Jury selection originally began in the fall but abruptly ended, with prosecutors saying only that “witness issues” delayed the process. It restarted this week at the county courthouse in Centennial.
Ray is accused of masterminding the deaths of Javad Marshall-Fields and Marshall-Fields’ fiancée, Vivian Wolfe, on an Aurora street. At the time of his death, Marshall-Fields was scheduled to testify against Ray in a 2004 slaying at a suburban Aurora park, authorities said.
A jury last year convicted Ray’s friend Sir Mario Owens of killing the couple. The same jury later sentenced Owens to death.
If convicted of first-degree murder, Ray also could face the death penalty.
He already is serving 108 years for his role in the 2004 slaying at Lowry Park. In that case, Ray and Owens got in a fight with Marshall-Fields, his friend Gregory Vann and another man.
Prosecutors say Owens killed Vann, and Ray shot and wounded Marshall-Fields and the other man.
Ray was convicted of attempted murder, assault and being an accessory to a crime, and was sentenced in 2007.
A third man, Parish Ramone Carter, is accused of being Owens’ getaway driver on the night of the 2005 killings. He is scheduled to go on trial later this year.
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Information from: The Aurora Sentinel,
