CENTENNIAL, Colo.—The prosecution has rested in the death penalty trial of a man accused of masterminding the slaying of a trial witness and his fiancee on an Aurora street.
Twenty-three-year-old Robert Ray is one of three men accused in the June 2005 slayings of Javad Marshall-Fields and Vivian Wolfe, both 21.
Marshall-Fields was to testify against Ray in the slaying of another man, Gregory Vann, at an Aurora park in 2004.
A jury last year convicted Ray’s friend, Sir Mario Owens, in the couple’s slayings. He was sentenced to death. Trial for the third man, Parish Carter, is pending.
District attorney’s spokeswoman Kathleen Walsh says the prosecution rested Thursday in Ray’s trial, and the defense will now present its case.
Closing arguments are set for Monday.
