Daniel Markel killed in Florida in 2014.Florida State University/The Associated Press
Police in Florida say they plan to charge a second man in the slaying of a well-known Canadian law professor two years ago.
Tallahassee Police Chief Michael DeLeo said at a news conference today that Luis Rivera is a suspect in Daniel Markel's homicide.
Rivera has not been charged, but he is already in a federal prison for an unrelated crime.
In court records released Thursday, police say both Rivera and Sigfredo Garcia came to Tallahassee from South Florida and killed Markel in July 2014.
An attorney for Garcia says his client will plead not guilty to murder charges. Garcia was arrested last week in Hallandale Beach, in South Florida.
DeLeo said Markel's killing appears to be a murder-for-hire scheme because neither Rivera nor Garcia had a connection to Markel.
The police chief also called the relationship between Markel and his ex-wife Wendi Adelson a "motivating factor" in Markel's killing.
The 41-year-old Markel, who was born in Toronto, was well known in national and international legal circles.
The father of two boys and a 2001 graduate of Harvard Law School, he practised white-collar criminal defence and civil litigation before joining the Florida State law school faculty in 2005.