Yeah, it's referring to the first girl, and I think the sign said "unknown girl and Natalie stole from them." They also apparently believed that she and Natalie were responsible for shootings that occured at both
Endo Velarde's and
Joey Rodriguez's apartments. They thought the two of them gave out their addresses over Facebook Messenger.
The affadavits are long and kind of confusing, but I tried to sum them up. I bolded some names of those involved in an attempt to make it a little easier to follow, apologies if it's not.
LONG POST ALERT
February 27th, when the unknown girl was kidnapped:
Unknown girl was at
Endo Velarde's apartment.
Joey Rodriguez,
Angelita Prado, and
Alexandra Romero were also there. They asked her to walk out to a truck, with Rodriguez following behind her with a large pipe, because he "didn't have his strap." She was taken to a 7-11, with Prado and Rodriguez, where
Prado said she took the girl's phone and blindfolded her. Prado said her actions were because the girl "caused Rodriguez to lose his job at McDonald's."
They then went and picked up Romero and took the girl to a hotel room. Once there,
Romero began to beat and taze her. They believed she had given out addresses, and were questioning her about it, while also searching her phone "looking for evidence that she released the information."
After several hours there, Prado left to pick up her 7 month old son, while Rodriguez and Romero took the unkown girl to
Breeana Dahlberg's apartment. Dahlberg states that they told her that she was a "hostage" and was "there to watch the kids." Dahlberg said they told her to "watch her and not let her go." She said Rodriguez asked her if she wanted the tazer, but she declined. Prado soon arrived with her son. She then left her son there and went somewhere with Romero and Rodriguez. The kidnapped girl said that she was ordered to watch the kids in the house. Dahlberg said they brought the girl to her house around 6:00am, and the girl escaped around 3:00pm.
March 11th, the night Natalie and Derek were murdered:
Gustavo Marquez,
Marco Garcia-Bravo, and
Alexandra Romero were all at
Joey Rodriguez's house. It states that _______'s name was brought up, (I assume either Natalie or the unknown girl) and
Marquez states he's dating _______. (I think the blank is Natalie, not exactly sure.) Romero stated that she got the idea that Marquez should go pick Natalie up, "so that she could be brought back, and Garcia-Bravo, Diego Chicon, and Marquez could beat her up and scare her."
While Garcia-Bravo drove with Marquez to pick up Natalie, Romero called
Diego Chicon to come over. When they returned, Romero states that she didn't go outside, but Rodriguez did. Marquez stated that Rodriguez threatened _______ with a crowbar, and took Derek's phone. Rodriguez then went back inside while the other 3 guys forced Natalie and Derek back into the car.
Accorsing to Marquez, once they got into the car, Chicon put his arm around Natalie and pointed a gun at her stomach. They drove around for a little bit, eventually arriving at Old Pueblo Road. He said that Natalie begged for her life throughout the ride, and _____ told her to stop, because it wouldn't change their minds. (I'm assuming the blank here is Derek
) He also said Garcia-Bravo gave Natalie a phone so she could say goodbye to her family, but when she didn't log into her Facebook, he took it from her and said, "you lost your chance."
Chicon forced them out of the car and made them get into an "execution position." He then shot Natalie. Chicon handed the gun over to
Garcia-Bravo, and he shot Derek. Romero said Natalie was the target and Derek was only killed because he was with her.
Here's why the others were charged:
Romero stated they all later met up at Endo Velarde's house. She said that she helped Chicon sell the gun used in the murders to
Carlos Meza. He was told not to sell it to anyone else because it had "heat" on it, but he sold it to somebody only known as "G" anyway. The detective contacted him and told him he knew he bought the gun, and eventually Meza said he'd call back and help identify "G" so they could recover the gun. He never did, and he wouldn't answer his phone. So, they charged him with "possession of a weapon by a previous offender."
When he was first interviewed,
Endo Velarde lied and told the detectives he had never met Marquez, and that Rodriguez was a friend of his, but hadn't been at his house in over a month. He said that none of them were at his house that day or the following day. He told detectives that several people were at his house on March 11th, but he stayed inside and didn't know if anybody went outside. He "wasn't paying attention to who was at his house." Days later, he was with
Chicon when he was arrested, and because he had no charges on him at the time, he asked the police for a ride so he would be "closer to his house." During that ride, he admitted that he knew the others were involved in the murders, and they did come to his house afterwards. So, he was charged with "Attempt to Influence a Public Servant" and "False Reporting to Authorities."
Alander Wilson is Endo Velarde's father. He told detectives that only he, his girlfriend (Velarde's mom), and Velarde were at the house that night and nobody else came over. Velarde's mom told them he was lying, and there were other people over there that night. So, he was charged with the same things as Velarde.
It says that on March 10th, the day before the murders,
Rodriguez told a female friend that he was going to kill _____ (I assume Natalie) someday because of rumors that she stole ______'s purse and some other items at his house. He said he was going to "take care of it." She is the one who said she saw the photo of the unknown girl with the sign.
/End of summary
Maybe a stolen purse was part of it, but I don't at all believe that was the only motive, or even the main one. Why would Romero think 3 guys would want to beat Natalie up over some girl's purse? Romero told police and Breeana Dahlberg that the first girl was kidnapped because she/they thought both that girl and Natalie gave out addresses where shootings occurred. The first kidnapped girl also says this. Marquez didn't mention any motive at all.
Most, if not all of them come off as a bunch of tweakers to me, particularly Romero, Rodriguez, and Prado. Prado actually left her child with a girl they kidnapped. All 3 of them were so stupid (probably high), they left her with Dahlberg for 9 hours, and never even checked back in. Did they really think that girl was going to just sit around and wait for them to come back and do something to her?! No way they weren't off getting high in those 9 hours. If they were actually angry about something being stolen, it was probably drugs.
