Wife may testify to avoid death penalty in husband’s slaying

Stacey Schoeck, who could face the death penalty if convicted of hiring a man to kill her husband in 2010, likely will testify against her alleged co-conspirator next week.

In exchange, Hall County’s district attorney won’t seek the death penalty against her, according to statements made Thursday in Hall County Superior Court.

Schoeck’s former co-worker, Lynitra Ross of Austell, will stand trial for what prosecutors say was her role in the 2010 Valentine’s Day slaying of Richard Schoeck in Belton Bridge Park.

Ross is accused of being the go-between for Stacey Schoeck and accused triggerman Reginald Coleman, also of Austell. Prosecutors say Stacey Schoeck paid Coleman $10,000 to kill her husband at the Lula park on the banks of the Chattahoochee River.

Ross, they say, connected Schoeck, her supervisor at a DeKalb County spine clinic, with Coleman.

Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty against Coleman.

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