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