Murder suspect pleads innocent

A woman accused of shooting her husband to death Nov. 7 pleaded innocent Wednesday in District Court.

The Daily Inter Lake

A woman accused of shooting her husband to death Nov. 7 pleaded innocent Wednesday in District Court.

Rebecca Ann Braunig-Haag, 51, will stand trial in February on a charge of deliberate homicide in the death of Von Stanley Haag, 60.

Bond for Braunig-Haag is set at $500,000. If convicted, she could be sentenced to life or as long as 100 years in prison, plus two to 10 years for the use of a firearm.

Montana allows for the death penalty in some homicide cases, although County Attorney Ed Corrigan has not said he intends to seek that penalty.

The Haags had moved to a home in the North Fork from San Antonio, where both had been longtime employees of the parks department.

She was reportedly a horticulture supervisor and he was a maintenance supervisor.

Braunig-Haag has reportedly said that her husband threatened to burn down their home if she didn't return to San Antonio with him for his father's funeral.

Haag died of a gunshot wound to the chest.