Arraignment Set For Minn. Teen In Iowa Killings
ALGONA, Iowa (AP) -- A Minnesota teenager charged with killing two convenience store clerks in northern Iowa will be arraigned Dec. 20 in one of two counties where he's accused of committing the crimes.
Seventeen-year-old Michael Swanson, of St. Louis Park, Minn., is charged with first-degree murder and first-degree robbery in Kossuth and Humboldt counties in the Nov. 15 slayings of two women in Algona and Humboldt. He will be tried as an adult.
Online court records show a Dec. 20 arraignment was set Thursday in Kossuth County. No court dates had been scheduled in Humboldt County as of Friday.
Swanson remains in the Kossuth County jail on $1 million bond.
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