Preliminary hearing set in Oberlin murder

OBERLIN, Kansas -- During a phone conference Monday afternoon, Decatur County District Judge John E. Bremer scheduled the preliminary hearing for Dylan Robert Coryell, charged with first degree premeditated murder, for Friday, Feb. 3, at 9 a.m., in the courthouse in Oberlin, Kansas.

Coryell, 24 years old, is accused of killing U.S. Air Force Airman First Class Corey Cook at a rural Jennings, Kansas, home on Oct. 16. Cook was 22 years old.

Coryell remains in the Decatur County jail on a $500,000 bond. He is charged with:

Count 1: Premeditated murder in the first degree and an alternate charge of felony murder in the first degree. Both are felonies punishable by life in prison and/or a $500,000 fine.

Count 2: Aggravated battery, in which he is accused of harming another person, Sarah Campbell, with a shotgun. Aggravated battery is a felony punishable by 11 to 34 months imprisonment and/or a fine of up to $100,000.

Count 3: Aggravated burglary in which he is accused of entering a building in which a human being (Corey Cook, Dakota Cook and Sarah Campbell) was present with the intent to commit a felony. Aggravated burglary is a felony punishable by 31 to 136 months imprisonment or a fine of up to $300,000.

The Kansas Bureau of Investigation, the Decatur County Sheriff's Office and the Oberlin Police Department investigated Cook's death.

The case is being prosecuted by Nicole Romine, a Kansas assistant attorney general from Goodland, Kansas. Coryell's court-appointed defense attorneys are Justin Barrett and Calvin K. Williams, both of Colby, Kansas.