Prosecutor: Ex-pastor viewed victim as 'obstacle'

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http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/6098430/

Raleigh, N.C. — Prosecutors laid out their case Tuesday morning in the trial of a former pastor accused of killing a Raleigh woman, painting the victim as an obstacle to his sexual advances on his male roommate.

Robert Lee Adams Reaves is charged with first-degree murder in the January 2008 stabbing death of Latrese Matral Curtis, 21.

Drivers discovered her body the morning of Jan. 30, 2008, along Interstate 540 near Louisburg Road. She was stabbed nearly 40 times in the head, neck, chest and stomach.

Prosecutors have said in previous court hearings that Reaves killed Curtis in a jealous rage because she was having a sexual relationship with his roommate, Steven Randolph, who had rebuffed Reaves’ advances.