Jury mulls fate of Virginia man in missionary's death

Published: Wednesday, Dec. 10 2008 7:25 p.m. MST

CHESAPEAKE, Va. — Jurors have started deliberating the fate of a Virginia man accused in the slaying of a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the wounding of another.

Deliberations began Wednesday in Chesapeake in the trial of 22-year-old James Boughton Jr. He's charged with first-degree murder in the January 2006 slaying of Morgan W. Young of Bountiful, Utah.

Boughton is also accused in the shooting of Joshua Heidbrink of Greeley, Colo. Heidbrink recovered and testified at Boughton's trial.

The missionaries were shot while knocking on doors in the southeast Virginia city.

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