GREEN BAY (WLUK) – Joseph Poore – one of the suspects in the June 3 murder of Robert Marshall – pleaded not guilty Tuesday.
Poore, 39, is charged with being party to first-degree intentional homicide and armed robbery. No trial date was set. He returns to court April 2 for a status conference.
Aaron Walton has pleaded not guilty to similar charges. He returns to court May 15 for a status conference.
The murder was a dispute about drugs, according to authorities.
According to the criminal complaint, Marshall was beaten and stabbed in a vehicle on Green Bay’s east side. Poore and Walton then took off in the vehicle and left Marshall, who was found dead at the scene.
Walton admitted the two planned to “take money (expletive) back from him” because Marshall owed Walton money. Walton told police he did not know
Marshall was injured when he told him to leave the vehicle. When a detective asked why Poore did it, Walton answered that Poore is “nuts.”
The criminal complaint does not include a statement from Poore.
A knife believed to have been used in the stabbing was found near the Mason Street bridge in Green Bay. Poore and Walton were arrested near Peshtigo.
