DeLeon trial set in girlfriend's slaying

Marco DeLeon

AURORA | An Aurora man who police say fatally shot his girlfriend last year is scheduled to go on trial next week, according to court records.

Marco Antonio DeLeon, 23, faces a first-degree murder charge in connection with the April 12, 2010, slaying of Dakota Fresh, 19.

His trial is scheduled to start April 25 and last five days, according to court records.

DeLeon was taken into custody the day of the slaying on an attempted first-degree murder charge. Fresh, DeLeon’s live-in girlfriend, died a few days after the shooting at a local hospital; DeLeon’s charge then was upgraded to first-degree murder.

DeLeon is being held in the Adams County Jail without bond.

According to an arrest affidavit filed against DeLeon, police suspected him of being the shooter shortly after finding Fresh in the couple’s apartment at 2001 Fulton St.

A friend of the couple’s called police early that morning after a distraught DeLeon called him saying Fresh was dead. When police arrived at the home, they found Fresh unconscious with a gunshot wound to her head. A .40-caliber shell casing lay on the floor near her.

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