CASSVILLE, Mo. — More charges have been filed against a 37-year-old man accused of killing a woman and her grandfather in southwest Missouri.
The Joplin Globe reports that 37-year-old Christopher Paschall is charged in the death January shooting deaths of 29-year-old Casey Brace. She and her grandfather, 76-year-old Herb Townsend, were shot at Townsend's home near Washburn. Brace died at the scene, and Townsend died at a hospital.
Paschall was arrested in Arkansas and is being held in the Washington County Jail.
Paschall was originally charged with single counts of first-degree murder, assault and armed criminal action. But prosecutors amended the charges recently to two counts of first-degree murder, three counts of armed criminal action and one count of parental kidnapping.