HERMANN — A rash of requests for subpoenas for potential witnesses and documents was filed Monday as the state and defense make final preparations for the upcoming first-degree murder trial of Christine Elizabeth Weber of Hermann.

Weber is charged in the Dec. 15, 2020, shooting of Al Falco at the duplex the couple shared on Goethe Street. Her trial is set for July 15, 16 and 17 in Gasconade County Circuit Court. Weber has been held in Crawford County Jail since her arrest and is now being held in Franklin County since Sheriff Scott Eiler began housing detainees at the Adult Detention Center in Union.

Gasconade County Prosecuting Attorney Mary E. Weston is being supported by Gregory Michael Goodwin and Michael Scott Schafer, two assistants of Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey. Weber is represented by Matthew George Mueller of St. Louis.

According to testimony at Weber’s preliminary hearing, Hermann police responded to the duplex three times on the day of the shooting, including the third time in response to reports of a shot being fired. The police reportedly found Falco with a gunshot wound but still alive. He was transported to a hospital where he later died.

Falco was not immediately identified as the shooting victim by police; indeed, he was not formally identified until the preliminary hearing in early May of 2021. 20th Circuit Presiding Judge Craig Hellmann is scheduled to be on the bench for Weber’s case. The pre-trial conference is set for 10 a.m. Friday, June 28.