Mar 22, 2017 2 min read

The state Supreme Court has rejected an appeal filed by Lana Roe in the August 2012 murder of a Daisytown man.

The court’s decision Wednesday declining to hear her appeal comes five months after the state Superior Court upheld the first-degree murder conviction and life sentence against Roe, 44, who was convicted in March 2014 in the shooting death of Cordele Patterson.

Roe’s husband, Jason, also was convicted during an earlier trial for shooting Patterson Aug. 14, 2012, at a cabin on Strawn Hill Road near Spraggs. Lana Roe was shot in the face by her husband during the killing. His conviction also was affirmed by the state Superior Court last August.

According to testimony presented at both trials, Lana Roe filed a report with police implicating Patterson in a burglary. Jason Roe then went home to pick up his wife and they retrieved their stolen items from Patterson’s house before going to the cabin, stopping on the way to buy a 12-gauge shotgun. They stopped again for Jason Roe to practice shooting it, according to testimony.

When they arrived at the cabin, Jason Roe told his wife to get Patterson, and as she and Patterson walked out of the cabin, Jason Roe fired the shotgun in their direction. Lana Roe was hit in the face by pellets from the blast.

Patterson, 38, went back into the cabin, and Jason Roe followed him inside, where he killed him. Lana Roe drove to a neighbor’s house to call police.

It was not clear Wednesday what attorney was representing Lana Roe during the appeal process.