Charla Mack
Charla Mack, 39, is stabbed to death the morning of June 12. Within hours, a sniper shot Judge Chuck Weller through a window of his third-floor chambers at Washoe District Family Court.1
News 4 has obtained thecriminal complaint and an affidavitin support of an arrest warrant filed in Washoe District Court, related to fugitive Darren Mack. These documents detailan eyewitnessaccount of the events leading up to 39-year old Charla Mack’s murder.2
Darren Mack has been ordered to abide to the terms of a verbal divorce settlement that he tentatively agreed to with his wife Charla and Judge Chuck Weller. Mack was allegedly unhappy that Weller told Charla’s divorce attorney in May 2006 to draw up the settlement order that he had tentatively agreed to and later balked at.3
Mack, 46, pleaded guilty in November to murder in the June 2006 stabbing death of his wife, Charla, and the equivalent of no contest to attempted murder in the same-day sniper-style shooting of Family Court Judge Chuck Weller. Weller, who was shot through a window at the Washoe County courthouse, has recovered from his wounds.4
Darren Roy Mack (born January 31, 1961) became the subject of an international manhunt in June 2006 after being charged with the stabbing death of his 39-year-old estranged wife Charla Mack in the garage of their Reno, Nevada home. Mack was also suspected and later charged, with the sniper shooting of Family Court Judge Chuck Weller, who was handling the couple?s acrimonious divorce.5