First-degree murder charges handed down
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Community members, including Jackie's cousin, marched in honor of Jackie Ann Defoe and her son Kevin Lee Shabaiash Jr. in March after they were killed in rural Cloquet.
A Carlton County grand jury voted last week to charge a Cloquet man with five counts of first-degree murder, another development in a case that shocked county residents last spring when the bodies of a pregnant woman and her toddler were found hidden in their home, brutally murdered.
Sheldon James Thompson, 33, was charged in March with two counts of second-degree murder and a third count of second-degree murder of an unborn child.
As a result of the grand jury indictment, he faces a total of eight charges: two charges of murder in the first degree, premeditated and murder in the first degr...
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