FARGO, N.D. (AP) - An 18-year-old man has been charged with the shooting deaths of two fellow employees at a northeastern North Dakota hog farm.
Jeremy Rodriguez Rios is charged in Northeast District Court with two counts of felony murder in the deaths of 37-year-old Brian Story and 50-year-old Christopher Sluder.
All three worked Turtle Mountain Pork, a commercial hog operation near Souris, in Bottineau County. Sluder managed the business.
Investigators say Rodriguez Rios was among some workers who argued with Sluder and Story on Monday afternoon during a conversation about employee work performance.
Police say Rodriguez Rios admitted to shooting the two men with a handgun on Tuesday and throwing the gun in the sewage pit below the hog barns.
Court documents do not list a lawyer for Rodriguez Rios.