18-year-old charged in highway killing deemed competent to stand trial

The teenager charged with shooting and killing a man in a car on Interstate 41 last summer has been deemed competent to stand trial.

Ji-Gwe-Mko Layton, 18, appeared in a Brown County courtroom Friday morning for the competency hearing.

Layton was arrested in August while carrying a gun in a ditch near the I-41 and Highway 172 interchange. According to a criminal complaint, Layton admitted to officers that he shot and killed a 60-year-old man because he believed the man was going to rob his safe…

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