Suspect arrested for alleged double homicide in Socorro
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SOCORRO, N.M. — A rural Socorro County man was arrested and charged with a July 3 double homicide in Socorro.
Trenton Fowler, 21, of Lemitar, is facing two open charges of first-degree murder. Fowler is accused of fatally shooting Socorro residents Jerid Trujillo, 34, and Christopher Heath, 39, approximately 30-40 times.
Socorro police officers were dispatched around 12:30 a.m. Sunday to the 500 block of North Sixth Street, where witnesses had found the Trujillo and Heath dead outside a home there.
According to witnesses, the men were working on a car outside when one of them noticed a white Infiniti was parked across the street. Shortly thereafter, one of them encountered Fowler, who then opened fire on the men.
Officers issued an advisory for the white Infiniti, which a Valencia County deputy later pulled over in Belen. Fowler was in the car and was arrested. The other person in the car with him was detained and later released.
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Fowler was booked into the Socorro County Detention Center.