AURORA | One of two men charged with murder after a 2009 slaying near Hinkley High School was sentenced to 20 years in prison this week.
Juan Carlos-Escobar, 19, had faced a first-degree murder charge in connection with the August 2009 slaying of David Ricardo Natividad, 20, near East 12th Avenue and Chambers Road.
According to court records, prosecutors dropped that charge and others against Carlos-Escobar after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit second-degree murder and to committing a violent crime.
At a sentencing hearing Wednesday, a judge sentenced Carlos-Escobar to 20 years in prison with credit for the 440 days he has spent behind bars since his 2009 arrest.
Carlos-Escobar’s co-defendant, Ruben Junior Rodriguez, 23, remains in jail on a first-degree murder charge. He is scheduled to appear in court next April 8 with a trial set for later this year.
At the time of Natividad’s death, police said he was stabbed in the early morning hours of Sept. 20, 2009.
A fight between an unknown number of people led to the stabbing, police said, and the suspects fled the scene before officers arrived.
Five days after Natividad’s slaying, police announced the arrests of Rodriguez and Carlos-Escobar.
According to Colorado Bureau of Investigation records Carlos-Escobar, who was just a few months past his 18th birthday at the time of the slaying, had never been arrested before as an adult in Colorado.
Rodriguez had been arrested once in Colorado in 2007 and was out on parole at the time of the stabbing, according to state records. In the 2007 case, he was accused of assault with a deadly weapon and illegally discharging a firearm in Arapahoe County. The assault and weapons charges were dismissed and Rodriguez pleaded guilty to felony menacing and received a one-year prison sentence in April 2008.
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