Court today for shooting suspect

A North Fork woman is expected to appear today in court to be charged with either deliberate homicide or mitigated deliberate homicide.

County Attorney Ed Corrigan and sheriffs investigators went Tuesday to the Trail Creek home of Rebecca Ann and Von Stanley Haag to help decide which charge Corrigan will file against her. She is accused of shooting her husband in the chest with a .44-caliber Magnum weapon.

Investigators checked the floor of the couples log home for fuel. Rebecca Haag has reportedly said that her husband had doused the house with gasoline and threatened to burn it.

There are enough conflicts with her interpretation of what happened, that investigators went back to the house Tuesday, said Sheriff Jim Dupont.

Haag reportedly bought the property, about 6 miles south of the Canadian border, about 10 years ago. The couple vacationed there and then moved into the home full-time first him and then her a year or two ago after leaving San Antonio, Texas, according to Sheriffs Department detective commander Bruce Parish.

The sheriffs office has no history of problems at the home and Rebecca Haag, 51, has no criminal history here, Dupont said.

Von Haag, 60, was reportedly retired from a job with the City of San Antonio.

His body was sent to the state crime laboratory in Missoula for autopsy.

There was no one else home at the time of the shooting, Dupont said. Haag reportedly went to a neighbors house early Monday afternoon and said her husband had been shot to death. The neighbor contacted an honorary deputy in the North Fork, who called officials.

The sentence for deliberate homicide is life or up to 100 years in prison; for mitigated homicide, the penalty is two to 40 years.