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Robert Keith Field |
BY KEITH EPPS
A Beaverdam man has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the Monday morning slaying of a Spotsylvania man in his home.
Robert Keith Field, 39, of Hanover is accused of killing 45-year-old Kenneth Wayne Dillard.
Police believe jealousy was the motive for the slaying. Dillard had been having a relationship with Field's wife, Tammy Field, for months, court records show.
According to police and an affidavit for a search warrant filed by Detective Sharon Williams in Spotsylvania Circuit Court, Tammy Field was in Dillard's home when he was shot in the head about 6:15 a.m.
Dillard was standing in his kitchen at 2131 Butler Road in southern Spotsylvania when the shot was fired through an open window. Police believe the shot was fired from Dillard's driveway.
Police spent most of Monday looking for Field, who turned himself in to detectives Monday night.
According to court records, Tammy Field told police that her husband had recently made threats to kill her and Dillard if he caught them together.
She told police that she had repeatedly asked her husband for a divorce so she could pursue her relationship with Dillard, but he was refusing to give her one.
Field told police her husband was distraught about their deteriorating marriage.
Tammy Field and her 8-year-old niece were in the house with Dillard Monday, when Field heard a loud noise followed by the sound of breaking glass.
Tammy Field, who the affidavit states had just been talking to Dillard, saw Dillard hit the floor, bleeding from the right side of his head.
Police seized at least six guns during a search of Robert Field's home at 12406 New Market Mill Road in Hanover.
Also seized were numerous cartridges and shotgun shells, gun accessories, a computer, about a dozen handwritten letters and notes and $2,900 in cash.
Sheriff's spokeswoman Liz Scott said the case is still being heavily investigated.
Field was arraigned this morning in Spotsylvania General District Court and is scheduled to appear in court Oct. 13 to name his attorney.
He is being held without bond in the Rappahannock Regional Jail.
Dillard also has a Beaverdam address. Beaverdam is in Hanover, but some residences in Spotsylvania have Beaverdam addresses.
Keith Epps: 540/374-5404
Email: kepps@freelancestar.com
