A Sedalia man was charged Tuesday in the slaying of a man who was found shot to death in an apartment Monday night.
Police were called just after 10:15 p.m. Monday to an apartment at 430 Albright Court, where they found 39-year-old William Saunders dead from an apparent gunshot wound. The call initially came in as a possible suicide, but evidence at the scene led police to investigate the shooting as a homicide.
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