Sedalia resident Rudy Perez Jr. has pleaded not guilty by reason of mental defect or disease to the killing of a Warsaw man at the Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans’ Hospital in Columbia.
Perez, 33, is charged with first-degree murder in Boone County Circuit Court after he assaulted Robert O. Hill, 78, while at the VA last week.
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