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Crowd supports man charged in death
Updated: Wednesday, 23 May 2012, 8:21 AM EDT
Published : Wednesday, 23 May 2012, 8:21 AM EDT
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - A judge has allowed an Evansville man to leave jail while he fights murder charges that he caused a fatal crash by driving into the car carrying a group of men who had robbed him at gunpoint.
Forty-year-old Ira Beumer was released from jail on $25,000 bond Tuesday following a Vanderburgh County court hearing attended by dozens of supporters. He had been jailed since a grand jury indicted him Friday for the February crash that killed 22-year-old Antuan Jenkins.
The Evansville Courier & Press reports Beumer's attorney argued that his actions were at worst voluntary manslaughter. A prosecutor says the grand jury heard two days of testimony before deciding on the murder charges.
Family friend Kristi Spalding tells WFIE-TV that Beumer shouldn't be treated like a criminal.
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