LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — A Clearlake Oaks woman arrested last month for the July killing of her boyfriend has been extradited back to Lake County from Missouri.

Tammy Sue Grogan-Robinson, 56, was arrested in August in Missouri, more than a month after she fatally shot 56-year-old Charles Vernon McClelland of Rohnert Park at the Clearlake Oaks home where she was living.

Authorities found McClelland’s body on the morning of July 7, not long after deputies responded to a local hospital on the report of a woman later identified as Grogan-Robinson reporting she had shot a man who had assaulted her.

Investigators said Grogan-Robinson and McClelland had been in an on-again, off-again dating relationship for five years.

The Lake County Sheriff’s Office would later conclude, based on its extensive follow-up investigation, that Grogan-Robinson’s shooting of McClelland wasn’t justified.

That resulted in the Lake County District Attorney’s Office filing a complaint for murder against Grogan-Robinson on Aug. 13.

Authorities said she was arrested on Aug. 18 in Missouri — where she has family — on a felony arrest warrant and extradited back to Lake County.

Chief Deputy District Attorney Richard Hinchcliff filed charges against Grogan-Robinson that include murder and assault with a firearm, with special allegations of intentionally discharging a firearm causing death, personal use of a firearm and inflicting great bodily injury.

Hinchcliff told Lake County News that Grogan-Robinson was previously arraigned and had been asking the court to allow her to represent herself.

In a Tuesday motion hearing before Judge J. David Markham, however, defense attorney Mitchell Hauptman, who made a special appearance on Grogan-Robinson’s behalf, said she was dropping her request to represent herself and wanted to retain an attorney.

Markham confirmed that with Grogan-Robinson, who appeared via Zoom from the Lake County Jail.

Hauptman raised issues because he had not yet received discovery in the case from the District Attorney’s Office. Deputy District Attorney Rich Watson said he had been directed not to release that information until Grogan-Robinson retained an attorney.

Grogan-Robinson is set to return to court on Tuesday afternoon, at which time the court will review the $2 million bail she is being held on at the Lake County Jail, where she was booked after arriving in Lake County on Sept. 11, based on jail records.

Hauptman said she is entitled to a review of that bail amount and Watson said he wanted to notify the victims of the proceeding.

At next week’s hearing, Hauptman intends to have Dr. Chris Lombardo testify — either in person or by a letter — to Grogan-Robinson’s character. Lombardo has worked with Grogan-Robinson, a surgical technician, in a local surgical unit.

Grogan-Robinson also is scheduled to have her attorney make their first appearance and to enter a plea to the charges at Tuesday’s hearing.

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