FINNEY COUNTY—Law enforcement authorities investigating a 2021 homicide in southwest Kansas have made an arrest.
On a Sunday evening in March of 2021, police were dispatched to 1404 W. Fulton Street Apt. 4, in Garden City after report of a man shot in the head, according to Sgt. Lana Urteaga.
At the scene, police located 32-year-old Victor Cabrera and Finney County EMS transported him St. Catherine Hospital. He was later flown to Via Christi Hospital in Wichita where he died.
On July 19, police conducted a traffic stop in the 1000 block of N. 2nd Street in Garden City and arrested 39-year-old Alfonso Fajardo in connection to the killing.
Fajardo is being held in Finney County Jail on requested charges of Second-Degree Murder, Aggravated Intimidation of a Witness, and Criminal Possession of a Firearm by a Felon. Fajardo has previous convictions for aggravated battery and aggravated burglary, according to the Kansas Dept. of Corrections.
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