About a year after his arrest, a trial date has been confirmed by a Placer County judge for a Grass Valley man charged with attempted murder. Sheriff’s Department Public Information Officer, Deena Erwin, says it occurred at a home on Joeger Road in Auburn…

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Erwin says the 26-year-old woman was shot once in the head, with a second shot hitting a wall in the bedroom. The victim is still recovering. The 36-year-old Mcilhenny was located in Lincoln….

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The tentative trial date is August 14th. Mcilhenny was also convicted of a hate crime in 2002 and served 9 months in jail. Authorities say he, and two other men, yelled racial slurs, as they drove by an African-American couple waiting for a bus in Grass Valley. They also threw wet sunflower seed shells at them and barely missed the wife’s head with an unopened can.