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Hearing for rural Horton murder suspect continued

(KNZA)--The preliminary hearing for a rural Horton man charged in the shooting death of another man has been pushed back.

The hearing for 32-year-old Stryder Keo was continued Wednesday to September 28.

Keo is charged in Brown County District Court with one count each of murder in the first-degree and aggravated battery.

He's accused of fatally shooting 35-year-old William Blacksmith, of Whiting, on the morning of July 17 on the Kickapoo Reservation.

Another man was injured after he was struck by one of the bullets allegedly fired by Keo.

Keo was arrested without incident a short time later at his home elsewhere on the reservation after multiple law enforcement agencies responded to the scene.

He remains in the Brown County Jail, held on a a one-million dollar bond.

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