San Diego, CA: Sentencing Postponed For Man Who Killed Wife At Boyfriend's Apt. Complex

Mychal Reed Shot Rosa Reed On Christmas Eve

POSTED: 7:25 am PDT May 7, 2010
UPDATED: 10:05 am PDT May 7, 2010

SAN DIEGO -- The possible filing of a motion for a new trial prompted a judge Friday to postpone sentencing to Sept. 27 for a man convicted of first-degree murder for shooting his estranged wife on Christmas Eve 2007, as she drove into the parking lot of her new boyfriend's apartment complex in El Cajon.
Mychal Reed was convicted of murder, lying in wait and personal use of a weapon in the death of Rosa Reed. The 47-year-old defendant faces life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Reed's attorney, Michael Garcia, told Judge Louis Hanoian Friday that he needed time to review trial transcripts before determining if a new-trial motion would be filed.

Deputy District Attorney C.J. Mody told the judge that prosecutors want the case wrapped up and said the victim's family is also looking for closure.
"They would like to see a resolution as well," Mody told the judge.
El Cajon police Officer Thomas Winslow testified at trial last year that Rosa Reed told him a month before the shooting that her husband went to her workplace at an El Cajon casino and threatened to kill her.
She also showed the officer a text message in which the defendant threatened to kill her, Winslow said.
The 44-year-old victim said that when she told her husband she was seeing another man, "he responded with 'you're hurting me and I'm going to kill you,"' Winslow testified.
She told the officer she had already told her husband she might take out a restraining order.
"She told me he said it was just a piece of paper, police couldn't be with her 24/7, and he would just kill her," Winslow said.