Elisa Losoya's Capital Murder Case Slowly Moving Forward

SAN ANGELO, TX -- Elisa Victoria Losoya is charged with capital murder by terror threat in the August 2015 death of William Valdez in San Angelo .

Losoya was in court for a  pretrial hearing Friday in the Tom Green County Courthouse. According to court documents, Losoya along with codefendants Jonathan Marin, Fernando Lavaris and Eric Martinez on August 31, 2015 are accused of breaking into Valdez’s house and shooting him during an attempted robbery.  

Valdez was shot under his left arm and was transported to Shannon Medical Center where later died from his injuries.  

Losoya’s jury trial was originally set for January 2017 but has been postponed until 2019 because she was appointed a new attorney after her previous court appointed attorney died.

Losoya's attorney Frank Brown filed eight motions for the court to consider dealing with the Texas death penalty process and jury selection.  District Judge Barbara Walther said she would consider them.  District Attorney Allison Palmer said she would read the motions and respond to them in writing for the court before the next pretrial hearing.  The next pretrial hearing for the death penalty case is November 17 at 9 a.m.  The jury trial date has not been set.  

Losoya remains in the Tom Green County Jail in lieu of $500,000 bail.