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Hearing For Accused Killer Placed On Hold

By Brian Hagen

01/20/2016

Terell Dixon Arrest Photo

(KAIR)--The preliminary hearing for an accused Atchison murderer remains on hold.

That happened Tuesday in Atchison County District Court, with the case involving Terell Dixon continued.

Atchison County Attorney Jerry Kuckelman tells MSC News the hearing is rescheduled for February 23rd.

The 19-year-old Dixon, a former Arkansas resident, is accused of the September 9th fatal shooting of 24-year-old Winston Downing, of Atchison. Downing apparently confronted Dixon regarding a past altercation involving a family member, and that's when the probable cause affidavit says Dixon shot Downing in the head with a semi-automatic handgun. The document states that Downing was holding a handgun at the time of the altercation, and Dixon's attorney is claiming self-defense on behalf of his client.

Fleeing the scene on foot immediately following the shooting in the parking lot of an Atchison convenience store, Dixon was apprehended 18-hours later in Henry County, Missouri, halfway between Kansas City and Springfield, and taken into custody on an Atchison County warrant for 2nd Degree Murder.

Later extradited from Missouri to Kansas, Dixon remains jailed on a bond of $500,000.

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