As reported by the Denver Post, a man that had been ordered to stay away from his girlfriend, has now been charged with shooting her in the head as she tried to drive down an alley near her home.
The woman, A.R., died as a result of the gunshot allegedly fired by her boyfriend of four-months, R.J.M.
According to court documents, R.J.M. has a history of criminal charges for violent crime arrests in both Colorado and Texas that span six years.
In 2005 R.J.M. was charged with assault and marijuana possession in Houston and in 2007 he faced charges of aggravated kidnapping, and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, in Dallas.
By 2009 R.J.M. had been convicted, per court records, of a misdemeanor and sentenced to a year in jail. While on a two-year probation following his time served, R.J.M. moved to Boulder, and later, to Denver.
An incident in 2010, involving an alleged kidnapping and assault, the charges were dropped by the woman involved, as she no longer wanted to proceed. The prosecutors felt forced to drop the case without the benefit of her testimony.
A little later that year, R.J.M. faced a DUI charge in Boulder – and drinking alcohol was also a violation of a court order against him in Adams County.
At this time R.J.M. was dating A.R., and had been for a couple of months.
A few days after A.R. had tried to end her relationship with R.J.M., on December 3, she came home to her Congress Park apartment and found R.J.M. lying in wait for her.
R.J.M. allegedly told police that he took A.R.’s keys and telephone away from her, tossed her into an elevator, rode to her apartment, threw her against a kitchen wall, held her down and finally released her when neighbors heard her screaming and came to help.
At that time R.J.M. was ticketed for assault and disturbing the peace – but a week later the charges were upgraded to misdemeanor assault and false imprisonment. A judge issued a no-contact order and a $5000 bail.
R.J.M. made the bail and ignored the order.
In court documents, it appeared that R.J.M. asked a friend, R.J.L. to drive him over to A.R.’s apartment.
R.J.L. heard a gunshot, saw R.J.M. run back to his car where he removed a layer of his clothes and – R.J.L. saw that R.J.M. had a dark-colored gun tucked into his waistband.
Once the pair returned to R.J.M.’s apartment building he instructed R.J.L. to take his backpack and put it in a vehicle. Police, alerted due to the no-contact order, spotted R.J.L. walking from R.J.M.’s building and asked to search the backpack.
The backpack contained a semiautomatic handgun magazine, which had been encased in a plastic sandwich bag, and stuffed inside a left shoe. Another plastic bag with a handgun in it was discovered stuffed into a right shoe.
R.J.M. is being held without bail and R.J.L. has been arrested on suspicion of being an accessory to a crime.
If you have been charged for a crime, or as an accessory to a crime, contact a criminal defense attorney for help. The best thing you can do right now is to get to work on a proper defense!
