GUILTY CO - Amanda Duran, 22, shot to death, Edgewater, 4 Oct 2006

[Michelle Read]

photo of suspect at link, still on the run....

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Edgewater police are searching for a suspect after a woman was shot to death as she screamed for help.

It happened around 9 p.m. Wednesday near 20th Avenue and Otis Street, according to police.

Witnesses said the woman ran to a neighbor's house, screaming. The suspect shot her from behind and fled in a red Ford pickup truck.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/10006183/detail.html

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[Gmommy]

Suspect arrested:
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/10006183/detail.html

 

[OkieGranny]

From October 2006:

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_4453514

Gilberto Cruz was being held Friday at the Jefferson County Detention Facility... Police originally arrested him under the alias Eduardo Espinosa-Martinez...

When contacted by police, Cruz confessed to killing Duran. He said he had been planning for about a week to kill her if she didn't reconcile with him...

He had a sawed-off shotgun and three shells under his shirt. When she refused to be with him again, he put a shell in the gun but it did not fire. She struggled with him for the gun briefly and then ran out of the house...

From August 2007:

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_6585074

Gilberto Cruz, 27, was sentenced today to life in prison without possibility of parole in the October slaying of his estranged girlfriend, Amanda Duran...

Cruz... was convicted in July of first-degree murder and possession of a dangerous weapon...