Charles Sawyer was convicted of shooting his ex-wife in Glassboro during the summer of 2012.
WOODBURY -- A Glassboro man was convicted on Friday in the 2012 murder of his ex-wife, the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office has announced.
The Glassboro home where Rita Sawyer was killed in July 2012 (file photo).Charles F. Sawyer, 62, was found guilty of shooting his former wife, Rita Sawyer, at point-blank range in the living room of her Sherwood Lane home. It took a jury less than three hours of deliberation to convict him of first-degree murder and related weapons charges, the GCPO said.
Rita Sawyer was found dead in her home just after 11 p.m. on July 2, 2012. She had complained to Glassboro police a few days earlier that her ex-husband was stalking and harassing her, but never filed a retraining order. The couple had been divorced since 2004.
The defendant, formerly of Swarthmore Road, was arrested near the Pole Tavern Circle in Pittsgrove Township just hours after the shooting. He has been held in default of $750,000 bail since his arrest.
Judge Kevin T. Smith has scheduled sentencing for April 22.
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