PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A man is facing a murder charge after police said he shot and killed another man during a fight over a trailer.
According to investigators, 51-year-old Ramiro Gonzalez-Rios was involved in a shouting match with 43-year-old Antonio Trujillo outside a home on Wier Avenue, near Fifth Street and Broadway Road on Saturday evening. Gonzalez-Rios thought Trujillo had sold his scrap trailer.
Police said Gonzalez-Rios put a gun to Trujillo’s neck, and Gonzalez-Rios claimed Trujillo dared him to shoot. Gonzalez-Rios said Trujillo grabbed the gun and it went off, hitting Trujillo in the neck, police said. He died at the scene.
Court documents said Gonzalez-Rios had originally told police a person had broken into his truck, stolen his two guns and shot Trujillo.
After the shooting, he apologized to a witness and gave them his cellphone to call 911, police said. Then somebody arrived at the home in a pickup truck, and Gonzalez-Rios got into the backseat. They then drove off.
On Sunday at around 3:45 p.m., he was arrested at his house near 29th Avenue and Bethany Home Road. He didn’t have his cellphone, and when he told officers his phone number, it was the same number that called 911 on Saturday, court documents said.
Gonzalez-Rios was booked into jail on a second-degree murder charge.
His cash-only bond was set at $350,000.
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