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Nebraska murder suspect who is accused of killing four people has bail set at $5 million
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A choose set bail at $5 million on Monday for a person suspected of killing 4 individuals and making an attempt to burn down their houses within the small northeast Nebraska city of Laurel final week.
Courtroom data present Cedar County Decide Douglas Luebe set bond at 10% of $5 million for 42-year-old Jason Jones, which means he must put up $500,000 to be launched from jail whereas he awaits trial.
“The defendant is taken into account an excessive hazard to public security,” the choose wrote in his bond order.
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Neither Nebraska State Patrol Col. John Bolduc nor a spokeswoman for CHI Well being St. Elizabeth in Lincoln, the place Jones is being handled for critical burns, would give Jones’ present medical situation on Monday.
Jones is charged with 10 felonies, together with 4 counts of first-degree homicide, two counts of arson and 4 weapons counts. Investigators have stated Jones shot and killed his neighbor throughout the road, 53-year-old Michele Ebeling, early Thursday morning earlier than setting her home on hearth, then went three blocks south, broke into one other dwelling and fatally shot three individuals there: 86-year-old Gene Twiford; his spouse, 85-year-old Janet Twiford; and their 55-year-old daughter, Dana Twiford.
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Barricades block off a portion of Elm Road in Laurel, Nebraska. The Nebraska State Patrol is investigating a state of affairs with a number of fatalities that occurred in Laurel on Thursday morning.
(Riley Tolan-Keig/The Norfolk Each day Information through AP)
Jones additionally set hearth to the Twiford dwelling, police stated.
Throughout the investigation into the killings, the Nebraska State Patrol stated they discovered a backpack and receipts belonging to Jones displaying the acquisition of a fuel can and different objects. A pistol registered to Jones was additionally discovered on the Twifords’ dwelling, the patrol stated.
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Authorities haven’t commented on a doable motive for the killings, however charging paperwork allege Jones killed the Twifords whereas making an attempt to hold out a housebreaking.
Laurel is a small metropolis of about 1,000 that lies about 100 miles northwest of Omaha.