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News
Release
Victim
of Homicide Identified
February
13, 2009
Detectives
from the Lakewood Police Department have identified the victim in
a homicide case which occurred in their city late Wednesday evening.
The
body of 19-year-old Salomon Adolfo Mendoza was found in the trunk
of a vehicle after it crashed into a barricade in the area of I-25
& Santa Fe. The vehicle was being pursued by police from Lakewood
and Denver after it was seen leaving an apartment in the 200 block
of South Ingalls Street. Lakewood police were responding to the
apartment after being advised by a man that there had been gunfire
at the residence.
Three
suspects, two men and a woman were arrested at the end of the
pursuit and have been booked into the Jefferson County Jail. Both
men face charges of first degree murder and the woman faces charges
of being an accessory and felony eluding.
Police
believe that Salomon was shot at the apartment following an argument
between several parties that had gathered there, and that the shooting
was gang related.
At
least one of the suspects was scheduled to make his first appearance
in court this morning at 10:00 am.
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