By Dailymail.com Reporter and Associated Press
Published: 23:42 BST, 3 May 2019 | Updated: 23:47 BST, 3 May 2019
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The widow of a Texas firefighter has been charged with capital murder after prosecutors found new evidence that suggested she conspired with her boyfriend to kill her husband and gain access to financial assets.
Chacey Tyler Poynter, 32, of Royse City was originally charged with conspiracy to commit murder, then charged with murder, following the off-duty death of Robert Poynter in 2016.
Cops found a link to a photo on Michael Glen Garza's Facebook account shortly after the University Park Fire Department captain was discovered with a single gunshot wound to the head in his car and Garza was last summer was convicted of murder and sentenced to 99 years.
Chacey Tyler Poynter has been charged with the capital murder of her husband Robert Poynter
Now it's alleged Poynter arranged the slaying to inherit funds.
'The State re-presented the case to the grand jury with the additional evidence and the defendant has been indicted for the offense of capital murder for remuneration which is for financial gain or benefit,' Hunt County District Attorney Noble D. Walker Jr. said in a Thursday statement.
Prosecutors believe Poynter was having an affair with Garza and the capital murder indictment alleges they fatally injured Mr Poynter with a shotgun three
