MCPHERSON, Kan.  -  Charges have been amended in the death of Brandon Brown, 26, a football player at Tabor College.  McPherson County Attorney David Page on Monday, amended charges against Alton Franklin, 19, from aggravated battery to aiding and abetting second-degree murder.  Franklin made a first appearance in court on that charge Monday morning.
     Brown died Saturday night from injuries he sustained in a beating last weekend in McPherson.  Franklin, of Dallas, Texas, was arrested earlier that same day.  Brown, from Southern California, had moved to Hillsboro only six weeks earlier.
     A public memorial service is being put together by the Tabor college student body to be held on Tuesday at 11:00 a.m. at the Hillsboro MB Church, 300 Prairie Pointe in Hillsboro.
     McPherson Police are still investigating and ask that anyone with information to call the department at (620) 245-1200 or McPherson County Crime Stoppers at (620) 241-1122.