AMERICAN FORK — A judge said recordings played for him on Tuesday show Matthew Restelli was not someone who was angry or “on a mission to cause problems” when he was killed after arriving at home to see his family.
“It was somebody (who) was looking forward to, from what I heard today, to seeing his wife and kids and giving her a hug and a kiss and heading back home,” 4th District Judge Roger Griffin said.
Following a two-day hearing, he ordered Kevin Ellis, the man’s brother-in-law, to stand trial for murder, a first-degree felony, conspiracy to commit murder and obstruction of justice, second-degree felonies; two counts of domestic violence in the presence of children and being a restricted person in possession of a gun, third-degree felonies; and drug possession, a class A misdemeanor…