Texas Firefighter’s widow, 32, is charged with capital murder due to new ‘evidence that Chacey Tyler Poynter, and her boyfriend shot her husband dead for money’
Slain firefighter's widow is charged with capital murder due to new 'evidence the mother and her boyfriend shot him dead for money' in Texas, three years `ago
Chacey Tyler Poynter, 32, has been charged with capital murder of her husband
Previous murder charge was dropped and the count was upgraded after the state was presented with new evidence in Robert Poynter’s death
Prosecutors believe the widow killed her husband for ‘money and benefits controlled by’ him
A grand jury indicted Mrs Poynter on the capital murder charge April 26 and sealed information was made public Wednesday in 354th District CourtÂ
Her June 17 trial date for the lesser count of murder is still expected to go ahead
Michael Garza was convicted for his role in the killing and sentenced to 99 years in federal prison 2018
Chacey Tyler Poynter [left], has been charged with the capital murder of her husband Robert Poynter, [right], a fire dept captain in Royse City, Texas, three years ago
A widow in Texas has been accused of master minding the death of her firefighter husband. The 32-year-old has been charged with capital murder after prosecutors found new evidence that suggested she conspired with her boyfriend to kill her husband and gain access to his financial assets.
Chacey Tyler Poynter of Royse City was originally charged with conspiracy to commit murder, then charged with murder, following the off-duty death of Robert Poynter in september 2016.
Cops found a link to a photo on Michael Glen Garza’s Facebook account shortly after the University Park Fire Department captain was discovered with a single gunshot wound to the head in his car.
Garza, 37, was last summer was convicted of murder and sentenced to 99 years for his role in the killing.
Now it’s alleged Poynter arranged the slaying of the 47-year-old in a money grab. – ‘The State re-presented the case to the grand jury with the additional evidence and the defendant has been indicted for the offense of capital murder for remuneration which is for financial gain or benefit,’ Hunt County District Attorney Noble D. Walker Jr. said in a Thursday statement.
Prosecutors believe Poynter was having an affair with Michael Garza at the time, and the capital murder indictment alleges they fatally injured Robert Poynter with a shotgun three years ago on September 9 ‘for remuneration, namely: money and financial assets and benefits owned or controlled by the victim’.
Chacey Poynter’s co-conspirator in the murder of her husband Michael Glen Garza [left], last summer was convicted of his murder and sentenced to 99 years
Prosecutors believe the Chacey Poynter [L-R], killed for ‘money and benefits owned or controlled’ by her husband
According to the Greenville Herald-Banner a grand jury indicted Chacey Poynter on the capital murder charge April 26. The sealed information was made public Wednesday in the 354th District Court.
The previous murder charge was dropped and the count was upgraded, however the trial date set for June 17 remains on schedule for the upgraded count.
Poynter was 29 at the time of the 18-year fire department veteran’s killing. She called cops around 10.40pm saying her husband had been shot. The parents of a six-year-old daughter had recently returned from a Mexico vacation.
She was arrested the next day after giving suspicious and conflicting information to authorities.
The previous murder charge was dropped and the count was upgraded after the state was presented with new evidence. A grand jury indicted Mrs Poynter on the capital murder charge April 26 and sealed information was made public Wednesday in 354th District Court
Chacey Poynter’s same trial date of June 17 is still expected to go ahead for the upgraded count
Chacey called police around 10.40pm saying her husband had been shot. The parents of a six-year-old daughter had recently returned from a Mexico vacation.
Police interviewed Chacey Poynter for nine hours the day after her husband’s death and Garza was arrested two days later.
A lifelong friend of Garza and another fellow trucker had claimed he told them details of what occurred before, during and after the slaying.
On April 15, Garza requested an appeal for his conviction after a two-week trial in July 2018.
Defense counsel Scott Cornuaud asked for all oral statements made by Mrs Poynter to be disregarded.
A 354th District Court judge denied the request April 26 following a hearing two days earlier. Now the request is pending with the Fifth Court of Appeals in Dallas.
Chacey Poynter is currently being held at Hunt County Detention Center on $500,000 bond.
Cops interviewed Chacey Poynter [right], for nine hours the day after her husband’s death and she was arrested after giving suspicious and conflicting information to authorities
Robert and Chacey Poynter, the parents of a six-year-old daughter had recently returned from a Mexico vacation. Michael Garza was arrested three days after the murder when investigators found probable cause he’d killed Robert Poynter
Convicted co-conspirator in the Poynter murder, Michael Garza [photo], requested on April 15 that all oral accounts from Chacey Poynter be disregarded in the murder case of the firefighter father
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