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NAMPA, Idaho (AP) — Four people have been charged with murder after a Nampa robbery and beating victim dies from his injuries. The Idaho Statesman reports (http://is.gd/NFCo6b ) the man was beaten, stripped and robbed near Lake Lowell early Friday. Forty-nine-year-old Steven Nelson later died, and that night deputies arrested four for murder and robbery.
Sheriff Kieran Donahue, calling the crime "heinous."
Four suspects were being booked into the county jail late Friday on charges of first-degree murder and robbery.
The suspects are 22-year-old Kelly B. Schneider, 21-year-old Kevin R. Tracy, and 28-year-old Jayson C. Woods, all of Nampa, and 23-year-old Daniel A. Henkel, of Caldwell. In addition to murder and robbery, Schneider also faces a grand theft charge.
Nelson's car was later recovered.
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