Garner woman may have asked man to kill fiancé, search warrant suggests
A Garner woman was charged in her fiancé's death last May after the man was shot and killed at their home.
Months later, a new search warrant reveals Patee Lachelle Bell, who is charged with murder, may have hired someone to shoot her fiancé, Antwone Durell Chisholm.
According to documents released Thursday, investigators searched Bell's phone and found a message to another man.
The message said in part, "Call me when you get up, but for everything to be everything, I have to go on this trip ... I need you to trust me, I love you. [Expletive] will be over when I touch down Monday afternoon."
Police also found a message listed as deleted from Bell's phone that read "Make sure you open that other window so you are not seen."
On May 8, police responded to a home in the 400 block of Kentucky Drive, where Chisholm, 34, was found dead of a gunshot wound to the chest on a lawn outside their home.
According to documents, Bell and Chisolm had just returned home from a vacation in Puerto Rico the day Chisholm was shot.
Howard Lee Covington Jr., 30, of Willow Springs, was arrested in connection with Chisholm's death and charged with murder.
Police haven't said what Covington's relationship is to Chisholm or Bell, but the search warrant states the man Bell was messaging is a "known associate" of Covington.
Garner police have not released the motive or what led up to the deadly shooting.
Bell and Chisholm lived together at the home and had recently gotten engaged, according to family members.
