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No Charges To Be Filed In Shooting Death Of Kansas Student-Athlete

A southwest Kansas prosecutor says no charges will be filed in last fall’s fatal shooting of a star wrestler from Garden City High School.

Eighteen-year-old Braxston Medina was killed Sept. 6 after going into a house to retrieve personal items he had loaned to someone. Finney County investigators said at the time that Medina had entered the home illegally.

A 17-year-old inside the house shot Medina once in the chest.

Finney County Attorney John Wheeler said Thursday the shooting was a case of legal self-defense under Kansas law. Authorities said 17-year-old did not know Medina, only that someone was entering the house illegally.

Medina had just begun his senior year at Garden City High School.

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