Just days before a long-awaited murder trial, a woman accused of killing her boyfriend in a downtown New Orleans hotel room is changing her plea — a move that’s likely to delay proceedings in a case reopened a year ago only after an investigation by WWL Louisiana.
Court records show Cache Shelton has withdrawn her previous plea of not guilty and is now claiming not guilty by reason of insanity in the December 2022 shooting death of her boyfriend, Nicolas Harrison. Jury selection had been scheduled to begin Jan. 12.
Shelton is charged with second-degree murder in Harrison’s death inside a Courtyard Marriott hotel on Julia Street, the morning of Dec. 27, 2022. Harrison, 29, was found shot in the head with his own handgun…