Man faces murder charge in slaying of 18-year-old in northern Nebraska

• Associated Press
• Updated Jun 21, 2019

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LONG PINE — A 26-year-old has been charged with second-degree murder in northern Nebraska's Brown County.

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Court records say the charge and one of terroristic threats were filed Tuesday against Nathan Yankowski. 

Sheriff's deputies were called May 22 to Yankowski's home, which is about 10 miles north of Long Pine. They found the body of 18-year-old Logan Maring, who lived in Merna.

A court document says Yankowski gave different accounts about how Maring had been shot in the head with a .22-caliber revolver before finally acknowledging that he'd been fooling around with the gun and had pointed it at Maring. Yankowski told a deputy that his thumb slipped off the hammer of the cocked weapon and it went off.

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