Overview

• A Cook County judge ordered 76-year-old Roland Schmidt to remain in jail pending his August 22 hearing after charging him with first-degree murder.
• Prosecutors allege Schmidt followed 45-year-old Christine Moyer outside a wedding at the Schaumburg Marriott on July 25 and shot her execution-style in the head.
• Court filings show Schmidt planned the attack days in advance and intended to take his own life after the killing.
• A guest at the wedding subdued Schmidt until Schaumburg police arrived, secured the firearm and arrested him at the scene.
• Moyer, a mother of two from Galena, Ohio, was pronounced dead at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital after suffering a single gunshot wound.