COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – Due to the large amount of evidence and reports that are not available yet in connection with a case in which the defendant is facing 11 charges, Branch County District Court hearings for 42-year-old Daniel Gerard Silich of Sturgis have been delayed until June.
Among the charges Silich is facing is second degree murder in connection with a hit and run crash which led to the death of 13-year-old Landen Risner.
He was among three children who were struck April 5 while they were riding their bikes in the area of Ralston and Arney Roads near their Sherwood Township home.
Magistrate and Judge David Coyle granted a request from Public Defender Matt Glaser for an adjournment on Thursday and set a new probable cause hearing date for June 17.
The preliminary examination which is a hearing to determine if the case should be bound over to Circuit Court for trial is now scheduled for June 24.
Silich is being held in the Branch County Jail on a $500,000 bond.
Besides the second degree murder count, Silich is facing charges of manslaughter with a motor vehicle, failure to stop at the scene of an accident when at fault resulting in death, reckless driving causing death, tampering with evidence, failure to stop at the scene of an accident resulting in serious impairment or death, reckless driving causing serious impairment of a body function, failure to stop at the scene of a personal injury accident, using methamphetamine and operating without a license.
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