A person of interest in the slaying of a Utah couple has been ordered to stand trial in Nevada in connection with a New Year’s Eve carjacking attempt.
After two days of testimony in an Elko, Nev., courthouse, Logan Welles McFarland was bound over on charges including kidnapping and larceny. According to charges, McFarland, 24, and Angela Marie Hill, 25, were involved in a carjacking outside a West Wendover casino.
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Hill, who also goes by the name Angela Atwood, faces an additional charge of attempted murder. Prosecutors allege she fired the shot that lodged into the back of Rattana Keomanivong, who survived the attack.
During the hearing, Keomanivong described the early-morning attack and her decision to try to wrestle the gun out of Hill’s hands.
"If I was going to die, I was going to die fighting," the Elko Daily Free Press newspaper reported Keomanivong as saying. "I was going to be found in the city and not along the highway."
Keomanivong managed to escape and drive to a police station.
Hill appeared in the Nevada court Thursday. Her preliminary hearing was set for March 7 and 8.
Both Atwood and Hill have been called persons of interest in the slaying of a Utah couple. Leroy and Dorotha Fullwood were found slain in their Mt. Pleasant home on the morning of Dec. 31.
Prosecutors say items stolen from the Fullwoods’ home were found in the car being driven by McFarland and Hill. The two face burglary charges in Utah, but no charges have been filed in connection with the slayings.
Aaron Falk
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