Posted on 10/15/2018 12:36:54 AM PDT by robowombat
Police have charged a Colorado Springs, Colo., man in the September slaying of a 28-year-old U.S. Army captain from Santa Fe who was found fatally shot near an intersection east of the citys downtown area.
Gilberto Chavez Jr., 27, who was already jailed on unrelated charges, faces a count of first-degree murder in Army Capt. Daniel Chamberlain Lehmans slaying, the Colorado Springs Police Department announced Friday in a Facebook post. Chavez is being held without bond in the El Paso County, Colo., jail.
Police found Lehmans body at the end of a trail of blood around 7 a.m. Sept. 15. But they believe he was shot about five hours earlier and two blocks away.
There was no other information about the arrest and no new details on Lehmans death in the Friday post, and the departments spokesman, Lt. Howard Black, did not return a call to comment on the case.
KRDO-TV in Colorado Springs reported that an affidavit for an arrest warrant says police believe Chavez was high on methamphetamine and thought someone was following him that night when he pulled out a gun and shot Lehman, who had just left a downtown bar.
A break in the case came when an anonymous tipster called Crime Stoppers, saying Chavez had shot Lehman and then fled to California, the TV station reported. ........
Born in Los Angeles, Lehman grew up in Santa Fe. He graduated from St. Michaels High School in 2008 and attended the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., graduating in 2012 with a double major in nuclear physics and philosophy.
Lehman served in Afghanistan in 2013 and rose through the ranks to become a captain.
He was living in Colorado Springs while stationed with the 4th Infantry Divisions 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team at nearby Fort Carson.
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We gain a meth addict, and lose a West Point graduate.
[Colorado Springs, Colo]
I had no idea this was what ‘Homicide Hunter’ was always about. I had always thought most of the stories were Los Angeles.
Dont forget, our criminals get the best healthcare, money can buy. I sometimes wonder, if the President even gets THAT good of healthcare.
Only surprise here is that they got him back after he fled to safety across the border to Sanctuary.
The phrase “nothing good happens after midnight” applies here.
Why the Captain didn’t call the police if he was still living for 5 hours? I am guessing perhaps an intimate interaction between perp and dead Captain?
They provide all sorts of detail about the victim, but almost nothing about the killer. Why might that be?
“Unrelated charges” = illegal alien?
“Unrelated charges” = illegal alien?
“Charges” is plural. Being here illegally is just one charge. There must be something else. Drugs is a good possibility. And it must have been enough to get him pulled out of Calisanctuaryfornia.
Why the Captain didnt call the police if he was still living for 5 hours? I am guessing perhaps an intimate interaction between perp and dead Captain?
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Ahh....no. His DEAD body was found 5 hours after the time police suspect he was shot. The article says nothing about him being alive for those five hours.
Perhaps in some Blue states such as California but in North Carolina medical care for convicts is spotty at best. In Louisiana it is worse, although in some cases (a serial murderer comes to mind) I think medical care is rationed to the inmate in relation to his crimes.
I was in California.
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