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Mon. 10:34 p.m.: Man charged with murder, aggravated burglary

COMING TUESDAY: A man from Bristol is expected in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court Tuesday morning to answer to charges accusing him of killing a Warren man whose body was found June 15 in a remote area of Bristol.

Austin T. Burke, 18, also faces charges in connection to an armed robbery June 20 at Pizza Joe’s in Cortland.

Burke was indicted today by a Trumbull County grand jury on charges of aggravated murder, two counts of aggravated robbery, tampering with evidence and two counts of having weapons under disability because of a prior felony conviction.

He is accused of killing Kenneth Brandon Sample, 22, whose body was found in a wooded area off of Peck Leach Road. He had been shot once in the head.

Read the full story in the Tuesday Tribune Chronicle.

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