The Wisconsin Attorney General’s office has filed a new charge against an Iowa County man connected to a fatal shooting last year. Officials are now charging 21-year-old Austin Valdez with 1st-degree intentional homicide in the death of Robin Reeson. Valdez was initially charged with 1st-degree reckless homicide in a trial that resulted in a hung jury. He claimed self-defense when fatally shooting Reeson during a dispute at a home in Ridgeway. A new trial was scheduled to start in December, but that has been cancelled. The intentional homicide trial for Valdez will now begin in March at the Iowa County Courthouse in Dodgeville.
