ASHDOWN — A retrial has begun for a man once sentenced to death after initially being convicted of killing an Ashdown couple and attempting to kill their 7-month-old son.
Forty-five-year-old Timothy Lamont Howard is charged with two counts of capital murder in the 1997 deaths of Brian and Shannon Day. He's also accused of trying to strangle the couple's infant son, Trevor, and faces one count of attempted murder.
A prosecutor told the jury Monday that money motivated Howard to shoot Brian Day on a farm owned by Howard's family. The Texarkana Gazette reported that the prosecution believes Howard strangled Shannon Day in the couple's home because she believed she was pregnant with his child.
But the lead defense attorney said a doctor told Howard he likely never could have children.
Howard was granted a new trial last year.