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Amadeus Ballou-Meyer, a 17-year-old Topekan accused of beating
his friend's mother to death with a baseball bat last year, has
been scheduled to enter a plea in that case.

A plea hearing for Ballou-Meyer was scheduled June 7 and is to
take place at 4 p.m. July 22 in Shawnee County District Court,
according to court records.

Ballou-Meyer is being tried as an adult on charges linked to the
killing of Hester Workman, 46, who suffered severe head trauma.
He had been friends with her son, Dillon Jay.

Workman's body was found in April 2021 in the attached garage of
her home at 2843 S.W. James, about one-half mile west of S.W.
Gage Boulevard.

Ballou-Meyer first became a potential suspect when police saw a
home security video taken three or four blocks from the homicide
scene shortly after it occurred, Topeka police Detective Luke
Jones said last March at Ballou-Meyer's preliminary hearing.

That video showed Ballou-Meyer carrying a ball bat. A disc
golfer subsequently found that bat in Shunganunga Creek and
turned it over to investigators, Jones said.

Video of Jones questioning Ballou-Meyer about Workman's death
was shown at his preliminary hearing. Ballou-Meyer gave
conflicting accounts but admitted being present when she
suffered a head injury.

More: Teen Amadeus Ballou-Meyer to be prosecuted as adult in
beating death of friend's mother

Judge bound over teen on charge of first-degree murder
Shawnee County District Judge Bill Ossmann at that hearing bound
Ballou-Meyer over on charges he faces of intentional,
premeditated first-degree murder or, in the alternative, first-
degree felony committed during an inherently dangerous felony.

Ossmann also bound Ballou-Meyer over for trial on one count each
of aggravated burglary, aggravated battery, theft and
interference with a law enforcement officer.

Workman was employed at the time of her death as a legal support
staff supervisor for the Kansas Board of Health Arts.

Tim Hrenchir can be reached at threnchir@gannett.com or 785-213-
5934.

This article originally appeared on Topeka Capital-Journal: Plea
hearing set for Amadeus Ballou-Meyer in death of friend's mother

https://www.yahoo.com/news/topeka-teen-accused-beating-friends-
132926032.html

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