SKOWHEGAN (AP) – Testimony has begun in the jury-waived trial of a Waterville man accused of fatally shooting his estranged wife while their two children were present.
Richard Reynolds is charged with murder in the death of 37-year-old Rhonda Wakefield-Reynolds on Jan. 12, 2007, the day she planned to file for divorce.
Reynolds, who is 42, shot his wife while she was staying at her brother’s home in Fairfield.
Defense attorney Peter Barnett told Justice Nancy Mills on Tuesday that Reynolds intended to kill himself in front of his wife. But the gun went off when the couple’s two young children startled Reynolds, and the bullet hit Wakefield-Reynolds in the head.
Assistant Attorney General Leane Zainea said Reynolds knew exactly what he was doing the day of the killing.
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