{"id":7252,"date":"2017-03-02T20:46:10","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T20:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/?p=2553627"},"modified":"2017-03-02T20:46:10","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T20:46:10","slug":"man-was-house-sitting-in-commerce-city-when-his-wifes-boyfriend-came-and-killed-him-affidavit-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/man-was-house-sitting-in-commerce-city-when-his-wifes-boyfriend-came-and-killed-him-affidavit-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Man was house sitting in Commerce City when his wife\u2019s boyfriend came and killed him, affidavit says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/man-was-house-sitting-in-commerce-city-when-his-wifes-boyfriend-came-and-killed-him-affidavit-says\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>A 34-year-old man fatally shot last month while he was house sitting in Commerce City <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2017\/03\/01\/christopher-toney-charged-murder-stockwell\/\">died\u00a0during an apparent gun battle<\/a> with his wife\u2019s boyfriend, police say.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2552927\" class=\"wp-caption alignright size-article_inline_half\"><img class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/man-was-house-sitting-in-commerce-city-when-his-wifes-boyfriend-came-and-killed-him-affidavit-says\" alt=\"Christopher Toney\" width=\"800\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<p>Provided by Adams County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Toney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to court documents, Christopher Stockwell was fatally shot in the back of the head by 37-year-old Christopher Toney in an altercation at a home on the\u00a0on the 9900 block of East 113th Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>An arrest affidavit for Toney says he went to the home to \u201cscare\u201d Stockwell when the shootout happened. Witnesses reported hearing two volleys of gunfire.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called and when they arrived they found Stockwell on the ground inside the house with a pool of blood around his head, the affidavit says. A handgun was underneath his body,<\/p>\n<p>Commerce City police say the shot that killed Stockwell \u201cwas determined to have been fired from down the street.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt traveled through the wall and struck him inside the residence,\u201d the affidavit says.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators believe that Toney had been enraged with Stockwell for apparently stealing several pounds of marijuana from his home in Wheat Ridge several days earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Toney has been\u00a0charged with two counts of first-degree murder and \u00a0one count of first-degree burglary in the slaying early\u00a0Feb. 16.<\/p>\n<p>Toney was formally advised of the charges Wednesday, and a preliminary hearing date is due to be set March 16, according to\u00a0the Adams County District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>He is being held without bail at the Adams County jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 34-year-old fatally shot last month while he was house sitting in Commerce City was killed during a gun battle with his wife&#8217;s boyfriend, police say. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6991,6905,6811,6812,6992,6813,77,9,5019,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[6993,6906,6816,6817,6994,6818,2655,5022],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}