MINOT, N.D. (AP) - Bond has been set at three-quarters of a million dollars for an 18-year-old man charged with fatally shooting two fellow employees at a north-central North Dakota hog farm.
Bottineau resident Jeremy Rodriguez Rios appeared for the first time in court Thursday. He is charged with two counts of felony murder in the deaths of 37-year-old Brian Story and 50-year-old Christopher Sluder.
All three worked at Turtle Mountain Pork, a commercial hog operation near Souris, in Bottineau County. Sluder managed the business.
Investigators 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.
Rodriguez Rios is scheduled to be back in court on April 17.