Nation IN BRIEF : MICHIGAN : Confession in Gulf Veteran’s Death Told

A man charged with killing his brother-in-law, a soldier who had just returned from the Persian Gulf War, confessed after police officers pointed out discrepancies in his story, a police investigator said at a preliminary hearing in Detroit. Michael Cato, 19, and his sister, Toni Cato Riggs, 21, are accused of killing her husband, Army Spec. Anthony Riggs, 22. Cato first said that he shot Riggs for smoking in Cato’s car, then said he had been promised insurance money, the witness said. It has been established that $200,000 in insurance had been taken out on Riggs’ life.