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Trial for suspect in Topeka shooting rescheduled

TOPEKA (AP) – The murder trial of suspect in a fatal shooting near a Topeka high school has been rescheduled for June 25.

Twenty-year-old Austin Tabor of Topeka is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 20-year-old Matthew Mitchell. He was shot to death in October 2010 near Topeka West High School. A 17-year-old survived after being shot five times.

Tabor’s first trial ended in a mistrial last week after a Topeka Capital-Journal reporter tweeted a photo that showed a juror.

A co-defendant, 22-year-old Coty Newman of Topeka, is scheduled to go on trial in Mitchell’s death on Aug. 20.

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