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Minnesota man to plead guilty in second convenience store slaying
A Minnesota man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk in Humboldt is expected to plead guilty to killing another clerk in Algona.
Kossuth County Attorney Todd Holmes says 18-year-old Michael Swanson of St. Louis Park, Minn., will plead guilty to first-degree murder and robbery in the Nov. 15. shooting death of Vicky Bowman-Hall at an Algona gas station.
Holmes says Swanson requested a hearing to change his plea. The hearing is scheduled for Thursday in Kossuth County. It will follow his sentencing Thursday morning to life in prison for the slaying of Sheila Myers at a store in Humboldt.
A jury found Swanson guilty last month of first-degree murder and robbery in Myers' death.
A telephone message left Tuesday for Swanson's attorney was not immediately returned.
Michael Swanson smiles as the judge reads his guilty verdict for both murder and robbery in the first degree in Carroll, Iowa, Thursday, June 23, 2011. The Carroll County jury found Swanson guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of a northern Iowa convenience store clerk last fall. (AP Photo/The Des Moines Register, Andrea Melendez)
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