The Big Piney man accused of firing an arrow through his friend’s arm, aorta and into his trachea in February agreed Thursday to plead guilty to one count of second-degree murder.

Rowan Littauer originally faced a first-degree murder charge on claims that he and another friend, Orion Schlesinger, marched more than a mile in freezing temperatures the night of Feb. 1-2 and into the home of Dakota Farley, to kill him.

They barged into Farley’s home, where Littauer shot Farley with two arrows from a compound bow, the case affidavit says.

The document alleges that Littauer then riddled Farley’s scalp with BBs from a BB gun and left the man dead on his floor for days before confessing to killing him in a boastful text to a young woman.

Schlesinger pleaded guilty Oct. 16 to conspiring to comm

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