TUSCUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – A man has been charged with holding three relatives hostage and killing one of them in a central Missouri home.
KRCG reports that 57-year-old Terry Ewens, of Eldon, was charged Friday with first-degree murder, first-degree domestic assault, first-degree burglary, two counts of first-degree kidnapping and unlawful use of a weapon.
He is jailed on $500,000 cash or surety bond.
No attorney is listed for him in online court records.
Miller County Sheriff’s Office responded Sept. 5 to a house in Rocky Mount, where they found Ewens assaulting an 83-year-old man.
Officers also found a 71-year-old woman unconscious, but she later died.
A 51-year old woman was able to escape before officers arrived.
