(Algona)– Authorities say a teenager from suburban Minneapolis is charged in the shooting deaths of two convenience store clerks in northern Iowa.
The Kossuth County Attorney’s Office says 17-year-old Michael Richard Swanson, of St. Louis Park, Minnesota, was charged today (Tues.) as an adult with first-degree murder and first-degree robbery in both Kossuth and Humboldt counties.
He’s accused of killing 47-year-old Vicky Bowman-Hall at the Crossroads Gas Station in Algona about 9:00 p.m. Monday. Officials also charged him with entering a Kum and Go Store in Humboldt an hour later and shooting and killing 61-year-old Sheila Myers.
Swanson was arrested at a McDonald’s restaurant in Webster City. He is in custody at the Kossuth county jail in Algona. The Kossuth County Attorney’s Office says he’ll be tried as an adult.
(From the Associated Press.).
