Honduran native Mario Flores is accused of shooting and killing his wife in their bedroom while her three children were home.
CAMDEN -- A Stratford man accused of fatally shooting his wife in their bedroom while her three children were home was indicted on a charge of first-degree murder Thursday.
The Camden County Prosecutor's Office said 33-year-old Mario Flores was indicted by a grand jury nearly four months after his wife, 35-year-old Roxanne Flores, was found dead in her Wright Avenue home at 1:30 a.m. on Feb. 20.
According to a probable cause statement provided by the prosecutor's office after Flores' arraignment in March, a witness who was at at the couple's home that night said Roxanne Flores was crying on a couch while Flores was handling a Glock handgun and said "people were after him and he needed to be ready."
Flores is accused of fatally shooting his wife once in the neck that evening before taking their 8-year-old daughter to Flores' mother's home at about 1 a.m., leaving a 3-year-old and 13-year-old at home with their dead mother. Roxanne Flores' body was found after authorities were called to check on her well being.
Flores -- who told others his wife had shot himself and later asked a witness to take care of his children-- allegedly disposed of the loaded gun at the end of a residential street in Lindenwold.
The Honduran native was apprehended by Alexandria City police in Alexandria, Va. about nine hours after Flores was killed. He was found in possession of a Honduran passport and packed suitcase and extradited back to New Jersey.
Flores remains in Camden County Jail in lieu of $1 million jail. He was also ordered to surrender his passport.
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