LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A magistrate has entered a not-guilty plea for a Purdue University student charged with murder in the shooting of another student in a classroom.
Twenty-three-year-old Cody Cousins of Warsaw appeared at a hearing Thursday at the Tippecanoe County Jail to face a charge of murder in the death of 21-year-old Andrew Boldt.
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Court documents say Boldt suffered both gunshot and knife wounds when he was fatally attacked around noon. Tuesday in Purdue’s Electrical Engineering Building.
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Prosecutors asked that Cousins be held without bond and defence attorney Robert Gevers II didn’t contest that, so Magistrate Sean Persin ordered that Cousins remain in custody.
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Cousins sat composed with his hands on his lap for most of the 10-minute hearing.
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