WASHINGTON — One of two men charged in connection with the fatal shooting of a woman inside her Smith Township home in June said he and his accomplice were looking to rob her when the home invasion turned deadly.

Shackled and wearing an orange prison jumpsuit during a preliminary hearing Monday morning, Walter Lee Winland testified against his co-defendant, Michael Coury Pyles, blaming him for shooting and killing 37-year-old Renee Lynn Gill while robbing her in the early hours of June 16.

Winland said he used to date Gill and they were still friends, but he planned to rob her of drugs and money in what he promised would be an “easy lick” when he asked Alexis Podlasiak to drive him to the home at 132 Eleanor St. in the village of Langeloth. But Podlasiak then got her boyfriend Pyles invo

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