ONE DEAD AFTER FIGHT IN NEWTON

One dead after fight in Newton

Here’s an update to a story the No Coast Network has been following.  A man from Newton has been charged with first degree murder after another man died after a fight in Newton Tuesday night (3/30).  Newton Police say around 7:20pm, Police were called to the 900 block of North 6th Avenue East about a fight.  When officers arrived, they found 41-year-old Randall Mikesell, Junior of Newton on the ground with possible stab wounds.  He was pronounced dead at the scene.  Shortly before the fight, 33-year-old Shane Romine Borrego of Newton had come to an apartment complex in that block to retrieve property from Mikesell.  At some point, the meeting escalated into a fight.  Borrego is charged with first degree murder and is being held in the Newton County Jail.

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