OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A man suspected in a south Omaha slaying has appeared in court on murder and other charges and will be held without bond.

A judge on Wednesday denied bond for 20-year-old Anthony Sanchez, who was arrested earlier in the week in Crete. Sanchez has been charged with first-degree murder, assault and two weapons counts.

Sanchez is suspected of fatally shooting 23-year-old Franco Gonzalez-Mendez and wounding his brother, Edgar Gonzalez-Mendez.

Police have said two officers working off-duty at the Guaca Maya restaurant in south Omaha heard gunshots just before 11:30 p.m. July 15 and found the two victims just north of the restaurant.

Lancaster County Court records say Rhonda Lyman is charged with felony theft. The records don’t list the name of an attorney who could comment for her. Lyman’s next court hearing is scheduled for Jan. 31.

The records say the administrator for Lincoln Southwest Surgical Center told police that bank deposits didn’t match up with cash payment records. Investigators say Lyman altered records of cash payments from patients between January 2016 and October 2018 and kept the money for herself.

Now his family members call T. Scott Marr — once nearly brain-dead — the “miracle man.”

Marr originally was diagnosed with a stroke on Dec. 12 after he was found lying in his bed, unresponsive but breathing. He was rushed to Methodist Hospital and soon placed on a breathing machine in intensive care.

Marr showed no neurological improvement by the time his family returned the following day. Brain swelling — primarily in the back of the brain — concerned his doctors.

“We were worried in this case that this was not a reversible process and that it was going to proceed to brain death,” said Dr. Rebecca Runge.

His daughter Preston Marr said she and the rest of the family faced a harsh reality: Scott Marr was not expected to recover.

“He had always said, ‘I never want you guys to see me lying in a hospital bed, lying in a nursing home,'” Preston Marr said.

“They told us he was on his way to brain death, so we said our goodbyes before extubating him, all the monitors were shut off and we waited by his side,” she said.

He kept breathing. He was still breathing on his own the next morning when his children returned after skipping their appointment with a funeral home.

“I asked him to move his thumbs, and he slowly moved his thumbs, and I asked him to wiggle his toes, and he wiggled all his toes really slightly,” Preston Marr said.

His doctors soon ordered another test. It showed that Scott Marr was suffering from a rare condition called posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome.

“It’s commonly caused by high blood pressure, but there are many things that can cause it,” Dr. Runge said. The severe swelling Marr experienced is not typical of the syndrome, she said, which is why a devastating stroke was the initial diagnosis.

Marr credits his faith for his survival.

I don’t want to make this into a huge religious thing but I’ll tell you what: It was pretty much a miracle,” he said.

Board chairman Myron Dorn outlined the proposal Wednesday at his last board meeting before joining the state Legislature next week to represent District 30.

Nebraska counties can’t collect sales taxes in communities that are collecting their own sales taxes, Dorn said. That includes Beatrice, which is Gage County’s largest city with nearly 12,300 residents and has a 1.5 percent sales tax. Dorn’s measure would allow a blanket sales tax over an entire county for a limited time and only for federal court judgments.

Dorn asked the board to pass a resolution backing the bill, saying such support could improve the bill’s odds of being passed.

“I don’t know how this bill will end up when it gets up there if there will be changes to it or not or has a possibility of passing,” he said. “The way it is going to be proposed is only for the payment of a federal judgment. The sales tax will end when that judgment is all paid off, for however long of a period that takes.”

Dorn estimated the half-percent tax the legislation would permit would generate around $1 million annually in Gage County.

The six people were wrongfully convicted for the rape and murder of Helen Wilson. They spent more than 75 years combined in prison until DNA evidence cleared them in 2008. Wilson’s death has since been linked to a former Beatrice resident who died in 1992.

The six sued the county and won the multimillion-dollar award — a jury decision affirmed by a federal appeals court panel in June. County officials still hope the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn it.

The board approved a measure in September to raise the county property tax levy enough to generate an extra $3.8 million annually that can be applied to the judgment.