CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - A $1,000 drug debt led to the murder of a 28-year-old man earlier this month, authorities alleged during a court hearing.

James Scheschi, a father of two, died after he was shot and stabbed March 1 at his east Cheyenne home.

Paul Mordahl, 27, is charged with first-degree murder. Adam Maggos, 23, is charged as an accessory after the fact for allegedly helping Mordahl dispose of a .380-caliber self-loading handgun.

Mordahl is being held on $250,000 bail. Maggos' bail is $50,000.

At a preliminary hearing Monday, police officers testified that several people were aware that Scheschi and Mordahl had been feuding over a debt owed the victim.

More than one person saw Mordahl and Scheschi fighting in the parking lot of Goofy's Tavern Feb. 28, and mutual acquaintances knew the two men were feuding over a $1,000 debt, according to Detectives Robert Bower and John Phillips.

When Mordahl learned Scheschi, who was known to carry weapons, was on his way to the bar that night, he asked Maggos for the handgun, the detectives testified.

It was on Scheschi's invitation that Mordahl and Maggos followed him home sometime after 2 a.m. March 1.

In an interview with detectives, Maggos related how he watched Mordahl fire a single bullet into Scheschi's turned head, then stab him eight or nine times in the face and neck with a knife pulled from the dying man's pocket, Phillips testified.

The switchblade, Mordahl allegedly told police, was his. It was stolen from him by Scheschi, who came to Mordahl's home to collect on the drug debt a week or two before the murder.

Pointing a gun in Mordahl's face, Scheschi ordered him to pay up, then walked away with a stereo and other valuables, according to testimony.

Bower told the court Mordahl had said that Scheschi robbed him, that the items represented partial payment and that he still owed Scheschi and others money for drugs.

Neither the knife nor the gun has been recovered. Police believe the gun was dismantled and tossed in a Laramie hotel trash bin. It is "somewhere in the Laramie landfill," Bower testified.

After the hearing, Laramie County Circuit Judge Denise Nau concluded enough evidence exists to send both men to District Court for further proceedings.

Information from: Wyoming Tribune-Eagle, http://www.wyomingnews.com