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CEDAR RAPIDS — A Cedar Rapids man, already convicted in the 2018 fatal stabbing of Chris Bagley, testified Friday that Bagley and Andrew Shaw started out as friends but their relationship deteriorated quickly after Bagley assaulted and robbed him.

Drew Wagner, 39, who pleaded to voluntary manslaughter and two other charges in Bagley’s fatal stabbing on Dec. 14, 2018, said he thought Bagley was a good guy when he first met him, but that Bagley changed and he wasn’t a good friend to Shaw.

Bagley, 31, of Walker, was robbing Shaw of drugs, money and tools in 2018. Bagley also owed Shaw about $40,000 by the late spring or early summer of 2018 for marijuana and THC vape cartridges that Shaw “fron

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