GREEN BAY – A Brown County court commissioner determined there is probable cause for court proceedings to continue for a man who is accused of killing his cellmate at Green Bay Correctional Institution.
Jackson Vogel, 24, of Two Rivers, is charged with first-degree intentional homicide as a hate crime in the death of 19-year-old Micah Laureano of Waukesha. He appeared in Brown County Circuit Court on Thursday for his preliminary hearing, during which a Brown County Sheriff’s Office investigator testified about the homicide investigation.
After the officer’s testimony and questions from attorneys, Brown County Court Commissioner Chad Resar determined Vogel will be bound over for trial. His next court appearance is an arraignment, scheduled for Oct. 15.
Prosecutors say that on Aug. 27, Vogel strangled Laureano to death while the two shared a cell in the prison’s treatment center. According to the Brown County Sheriff’s Office, Vogel and Laureano had been placed in the same cell only hours before Laureano’s murder.