A 32-year-old Farmington man was shot and killed in his home late Wednesday night and his fiancee’s brother has been charged with murder.
The victim is identified in court paperwork as Jorge Tejada Camacho. Police said he was in bed when he was shot several times.
According to police, 24-year-old Deondre Linder has been charged with murder and is facing several other charges.
The 24-year-old was arrested about an hour after the shooting after fleeing in Camacho’s car, police said. He appeared before a judge Thursday and is in custody on $1 million bond.
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Camacho, his fiancée, their - and 10-year-old children and Linder lived in the same house, according to court paperwork, and the children were in the house in another bedroom when he was shot.
Officers responded to the Sunset Terrace home in Unionville just before 11 p.m. Wednesday after a woman called 911 and reported that her brother had shot her fiancé to death, according to the arrest warrant application.
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Camacho had been shot several times and was lying in bed when officers arrived. He was transported to St. Francis Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 12:09 a.m., police said.
Linder was gone from the scene and officers learned that he’d left in Camacho’s car. After a description of the car was shared with police, a Farmington police officer saw Linder driving east on Route 4 at 12:05 a.m., then get onto I-84 West, police said.
Farmington officers stopped the vehicle and took him into custody.
The arrest warrant application said police questioned Linder, who eventually asked for an attorney, and investigators ended the interview.
Camacho’s fiancée told police that the couple was woken by her brother’s voice saying “I know what you did,” then she heard three to four gunshots, according to the arrest warrant application.
She told investigators that she didn’t know why Linder would shoot Camacho, adding that Camacho had given Linder two weeks to find a job or move out. She also said her brother has mental health problems, according to the arrest warrant application.
Linder is being held on a $1 million bond and has been charged with murder and criminal possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Risk of injury to a child and reckless endangerment charges have also been filed.
Linder's next court appearance is set for March 31.
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