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BLOOMSBURG – A Mahanoy City man was released from the Columbia County lockup Tuesday as the most serious charge against him in a Bloomsburg shooting was dropped.
Samuel Charles Evans, 19, of Mahanoy City, is accused of shooting a 16-year-old boy in the 300 block of East Street in Bloomsburg.
He was charged with criminal homicide, felony aggravated assault, firearms not to be carried without a license, misdemeanor reckless endangerment, among other charges.
At a preliminary hearing Tuesday before Magisterial District Judge Russell Lawton, authorities withdrew a charge of criminal homicide while the remainder where held for court.
Evans was released on $500,000 unsecured bail.
The case will move to the Columbia County Courthouse pending action there.
The post Homicide charge dropped, Mahanoy man freed from Columbia County jail pending trial first appeared on The Shenandoah Sentinel.
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