Pueblo man in court to face murder charge
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
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A 36-year-old man from
Cochiti Pueblo in New Mexico appeared at a preliminary hearing in federal court for allegedly killing his 93-year-old grandmother.
Brian Joseph Chavez faces a life sentence in prison if convicted of first-degree murder. He reportedly confessed to shooting grandmother, Jane Louise Kinyahne, who was Navajo, at Cochiti Pueblo.
Kinyahne died on Friday, just hours after Chavez was allegedly involved in another fatal shooting, off the reservation. The federal case will likely be resolved before the state one, The Albuquerque Journal reported.
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