Suspect in Custer County triple homicide in court

(FREMONT COUNTY, Colo.) — The man accused of killing three people and causing a multi-state manhunt in November 2023 will be in Fremont County court on Wednesday, Sept. 17.

On Nov. 20, 2023, what allegedly started as a property dispute between 45-year-old Hanme Kim Clark and his neighbors turned into a deadly shooting, resulting in the deaths of 63-year-old Rob Geers, 73-year-old Beth Wade Geers, and 58-year-old James Daulton. Patty Daulton was injured in the shooting.


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Clark and his girlfriend, Nancy Rae Medina-Kochis, fled Colorado after the shooting, and both were captured in New Mexico a day later. Both unsuccessfully tried to fight extradition back to Colorado.

Clark appeared in the Custer County Court on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025, and entered a not guilty plea to each of three first-degree murder charges, as well an attempted murder and assault charge. Clark is due back in court on Wednesday at 3 p.m.

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