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Authorities, including a member of the Illinois State Police Crime Scene Investigating unit were seen entering a residence at 503 W. McGill in Sullivan Thursday afternoon. Court records show that the residence belongs to Michael S. Yost, the man who was found with stab wounds Wednesday morning in addition to Sheri Randall, who was pronounced dead at the scene. Authorities are calling last Wednesday’s incident a homicide and have since brought Yost up on preliminary first degree murder charges.

March 10, 2015• 5:02 p.m.

Michael Yost arrested Tuesday afternoon
by Keith Stewart
keith@newsprogress.com

A Sullivan man was brought up on preliminary first degree murder charges Tuesday afternoon in connection with the death of a 43-old woman last Wednesday.
Illinois State Police announced Michael S. Yost of Sullivan as being arrested Tuesday after he was released from St. Mary’s hospital in Decatur. Yost was then incarcerated at the Moultrie County Jail.
Yost was found last Wednesday morning along with Sheri Randall in her Graham Street apartment in Sullivan. Both individuals were found unresponsive and suffering from stab wounds. While Randall was pronounced dead at the scene by Moultrie County Coroner Lynn Reed at 11:50 a.m. that morning, Yost was transported by ambulance to St. Mary’s Hospital in Decatur, where he underwent surgery.
According to Reed, Randall’s preliminary cause of death is multiple stab wounds on the abdomen. Reed said Tuesday that as is normal with autopsies, a toxicology report is pending, but he doesn’t expect it to change the outcome of the findings so far.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.