The long-delayed trial for a man accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend begins today in Pueblo. Jury selection in the First-Degree murder trial of Donthe Lucas starts Monday morning. Lucas is accused of killing Kelsie Schelling, a Denver woman who drove to Pueblo to see Lucas in 2013, to tell him she was pregnant. Schelling disappeared and police investigated for several years before charging Lucas with murder in 2018.
Pueblo Crime Stoppers reported cellphone records showed she arrived at a Walmart. Surveillance video showed her vehicle was parked there until the morning of February 6th, 2013, when an unidentified male picked up the vehicle and drove away. Schelling was never seen or heard from again and her body has never been located.
Jury selection in the Kelsie Schelling case is set to begin in Pueblo Combined Court. The trial is scheduled to continue through March 1st. Authorities had long classified Lucas, as a potential suspect in Schelling’s disappearance. A judge signed a warrant for his arrest in December 2017, when he was already in custody as a suspect in a Pueblo robbery.
Lucas pled not guilty to Schelling’s murder in August 2018. His trial date was scheduled several times and then postponed.
