WAUPACA, WI (WTAQ) – The suspects in a beating death have been ordered to stand trial.
Adam Ozuna, 24, and Zachary Hohn, 16, allegedly beat Matthew Pagel, 25, to death and left his body along side the road.
Both were ordered to stand trial after a preliminary hearing Wednesday, according to online court records.
Although Hohn is 16, in Wisconsin, homicide cases for children 10 and older start in adult court.
Hohn’s attorney told the court he will file a petition, seeking to have the case moved to juvenile court, records indicate.
Hohn is scheduled to be back in court June 21. Ozuna’s arraignment is set for July 14.
According to a criminal complaint, Ozuna and Hohn allegedly picked Pagel up from a motel in Clintonville where he was living.
Pagel was looking to buy the drug Adderall and had been exchanging text messages with Ozuna and Hohn, according to prosecutors.
Ozuna and Hohn offered to drive Pagel to get some Adderall, but instead beat him to death in the car and robbed him. They ended up with $200 and Pagel’s jacket.
Prosecutors say the used a car belonging to the mother of Hohn’s girlfriend, who also lives with Ozuna. When the two returned, they were covered in blood and told Hohn’s girlfriend about the beating. Her mother eventually found Pagel’s body in a ditch southeast of Clintonville and called 911 around 2:30 a.m.
