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Homeless man charged with fatal beating of Kansas man

Hottman booking photo from a February arrest in Salina

TOPEKA— A homeless man has been charged with killing another man behind a Topeka gas station.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that 41-year-old Jason Hottman was charged Thursday with second-degree murder in the killing 34-year-old Jason Baker. Police found Baker bleeding and unresponsive June 2 behind the Haag’s Express gas station in the western part of the city.

Police said that on June 4, Hottman jumped off a bridge onto Interstate 70. He sustained injuries not believed to be life-threatening.

Hottman has previous convictions in Dickinson and Saline County for burglary, criminal threat, harassment by telephone, criminal trespass and violation of a protection order.

Police on the scene of the June 2 fatality-photo courtesy WIBW TV

The prosecutor’s office didn’t immediately return an email message asking whether Hottman has an attorney.

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