Fairfield Man Accused Of Killing Ex-Wife Posts $2M Bond

FAIRFIELD, CT — A Fairfield man accused of killing his ex-wife earlier this year is being released from prison after posting his $2 million bond on Tuesday, according to the Connecticut Post.

The Post reports a Superior Court judge allowed James Taylor, 75, to post the bond on the condition that he live at his son’s Bronson Road home under house arrest. Taylor was arrested after police say he fatally shot his ex-wife in February. Police responded to a 911 call from a home on Catamount Road at about 9:30 p.m. on Feb. 3 and Catherine Taylor, 70, of Redding Road in Fairfield, was found dead at the scene.

James Taylor, of Redding Road in Fairfield, was charged with murder, attempted murder, home invasion, first-degree burglary, third-degree assault and illegal discharge of a firearm.

James Taylor and Catherine Taylor had been divorced for 20 years but started seeing each other again and had a dispute in which the victim accused Taylor of stealing her car, the Hartford Courant previously reported. Police found the car at a mutual friend's house and didn't make an arrest, saying there appeared to be a disagreement about who the car belonged to, the Courant reported.

As a result of the argument, Catherine Taylor moved into her son's home, which was nearby on Catamount Road, according to the Connecticut Post. James Taylor is accused of breaking into the Catamount Road home and fatally shooting Catherine Taylor with a rifle. The stepson then fought with Taylor and struck him several times in self-defense while calling 911.

The judge also ordered that while under house arrest, James Taylor must wear a GPS monitoring anklet and not to go more than 500 feet from his son’s Bronson Road house, except for doctor’s appointments, and that he must stay 2,500 feet from his stepson’s home, according to the Post. The case was continued to May 22.

Read more at the Connecticut Post here.