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Report: Bullet That Killed Woman Fired From Airman's Rifle

Maricopa County Sheriff's Office via AP, File

Authorities in Coconino County say a bullet taken from the skull of a woman was fired from a rifle owned by an Air Force airman charged in her death.

Mark Gooch has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and other charges in the death of Sasha Krause. The 27-year-old woman disappeared from a Mennonite community near Farmington, New Mexico, in January. Her body later was found off a forest road near Flagstaff. The Coconino County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday that state crime lab testing indicates the bullet matches a .22-caliber rifle that belonged to Gooch. An attorney for Gooch didn't respond to a message left at his office Wednesday.

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