YORK, Pa. (WHTM) -
A York man has been held for trial in the two-year-old shooting death of a 55-year-old Glenville woman.
Timothy Matthew Jacoby, 39, was bound for court during his preliminary hearing Monday.
He remains in the York County Prison without bail on criminal homicide and other charges related to the March 31, 2010 killing of Monica Schmeyer.
A formal arraignment in York County county was scheduled for October 26.
Schmeyer was found dead from a single gunshot wound to her head inside her rural home in the 3400 block of Trone Road after a 911 hang-up. A spent .32-caliber shell casing was near her body, but there were no signs of forced entry or robbery, according to Southwestern Regional police.
According to charging documents filed last month, Schmeyer's caller ID indicated she received a phone call from the cell phone of her ex-husband, Jon Schmeyer, about an hour-and-a-half before the 911 hang-up.
Jon Schmeyer was living in Williamsburg, Va. at the time of his ex-wife's death, but told police he was with a friend at the Hooter's restaurant in York that day. The friend confirmed that she was with Mr. Schmeyer, but said her fiance, Tim Jacoby, usually meets with them and was not there that day, documents state.
Police said in the documents that Mr. Schmeyer and Jacoby are both members of a social group that met frequently at the restaurant.
Court documents also state that a neighbor saw a man walking toward the victim's home, and a short time later walking back at the approximate time of Schmeyer's killing. Another person saw a man walking nearby toward a parked gray or silver van. Both provided descriptions of a man similar to Jacoby, police said.
Jacoby's employer provided records that indicated he was driving a silver van on the day Schmeyer was killed, documents state.
Police said they also seized a .32-caliber semiautomatic handgun and spent shell casings from the home of Jacoby's parents. Ballistics tests confirmed the shell casings seized by police were fired from the same gun that fired the spent shell at the murder scene, documents state.
According to the documents, the barrel of the handgun seized at Jacoby's parents and a second barrel for the gun taken from Jacoby's home both had been damaged by filing or scraping.
Jacoby was not permitted to own firearms because of his 2006 conviction for a robbery in Springettsbury Township, documents state.
In addition to criminal homicide, he has been charged with burglary, receiving stolen property, illegal possession of a firearm, and tampering with evidence.
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