A jury trial for Joshua Knapp, charged with the murder of Iolan Shawn Cook, has been pushed back to January.
Allen County District Judge Daniel Creitz approved Wednesday a defense motion to delay the start of the trial — originally scheduled for Nov. 13 — because of plea agreements reached by Knapp’s co-defendants, James Myers and Rhonda Jackson.
Myers and Jackson had been charged along with Knapp with first-degree murder in Cook’s March 2016 death.
Myers reached a deal with prosecutors Sept. 19, in which he pleaded no-contest to four counts of…
Knapp trial pushed back
