A 19-year-old Aurora man was arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder in connection with the April shooting death of an 18-year-old man near Cherry Creek High School.
Jorge Trujillo was arrested Wednesday for allegedly killing Jose Angel Hernandez, who is also an Aurora resident, according to the Greenwood Village Police Department.
Officers responded to East Union Avenue near South Yosemite Street at around 5 a.m. on April 27 after someone called 911 to report an SUV was stopped in the road with all the doors open and lights on and appeared to have bullet holes in it, investigators wrote in an arrest affidavit.
The area is next to Cherry Creek High School but the school is not connected to the shooting, according to police officials.
Police found Hernandez dead from multiple gunshot wounds in the SUV’s driver seat.
Investigators determined Hernandez, Trujillo and two others met up the night of April 26 and went to sell drugs at a Denver club. After the group left the club and was trying to find a strip club, Hernandez and Trujillo started arguing about Trujillo not returning the bag of drugs he was supposed to sell, according to the affidavit.
They pulled over as the argument got heated and two other people in the car tried to calm down Hernandez and Trujillo, with all getting out of the vehicle except Hernandez, a witness told police.
Trujillo then started shooting Hernandez “without warning” and ran from the scene. He was later recorded on a nearby surveillance video talking about needing to puke and that he “just started shooting,” according to the affidavit.
Trujillo is in custody at the Arapahoe County Detention Center on a $1 million bail and set to appear in court Tuesday.
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