A Sedalia man has been charged with first-degree murder after allegedly assaulting a 78-year-old Warsaw man at the Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans’ Hospital in Columbia.
Rudy Perez Jr., 33, is accused of attacking Robert O. Hill at 6:30 p.m. Friday at the hospital; Hill died of his injuries four hours later.
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