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| Marcos DeLeon |
AURORA | A judge Friday sentenced a man to 35 years in prison for killing his girlfriend last year at the couple’s Aurora apartment.
Marcos Antonio DeLeon, 23, was convicted in April of second-degree murder in connection with the April 2010 slaying of 19-year-old Dakota Fresh at the couple’s apartment near East Montview Boulevard and Fulton Street.
DeLeon faced up to 48 years in prison on the second-degree murder charge.
In addition to the 35-year-sentence, a judge also sentenced DeLeon to 8 years in prison on a marijuana distribution charge. That sentence will run concurrently with the murder sentence.
During DeLeon’s trial his lawyer said DeLeon did not mean to kill Fresh that night and may not have been the person who pulled the trigger. Fresh grabbed a gun from the coffee table that night and held it to her head, threatening suicide, the lawyer said. And when DeLeon reached for the pistol, it went off.
But prosecutors said DeLeon’s actions in the minutes after the shooting — including fleeing the apartment, hiding out in a hotel and later at a friend’s house — showed he is guilty.
DeLeon has been in jail since police arrested him in the hours after Fresh’s slaying.
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