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Alejandro Rodriguez (left) and Mario Dean Chavez are suspected in a home intrusion where one of the intruders was shot and killed.

Second Man Arrested In Deadly Home Invasion

Dean Chavez Arrested In Las Animas County

POSTED: 7:09 am MST November 24, 2011
UPDATED: 2:46 pm MST November 25, 2011

A second man believed to have been with an alleged intruder who was shot and killed by a homeowner has turned himself in to police.

Trinidad police say a homeowner was awakened Saturday around 2 a.m. by the sound of a knock at the front door and the door being forced open.

The homeowner said he believed there were three to four men who had forced their way into the home.

The homeowner's wife hid in the bathroom when the homeowner was approached by one of the intruders in the bedroom.

The homeowner grabbed his handgun and confronted the intruder, police said. The intruder ran out, yelling “He has a gun!”

As the intruder was fleeing, the homeowner fired his weapon through the bedroom door and wall toward the fleeing men.

After he believed all the men had fled the home, the victim went to his living room and saw blood. He then looked outside his home and saw a man lying face down on the front lawn.

Police identified that man as 24-year-old Rory Davis Rodriguez. He had been fatally shot in the head.

Investigators said they believe Rodriguez was breaking into the home with his 21-year-old brother, Alejandro Rodriguez, and 21-year-old Mario Dean Chavez.

Denver officers arrested Alejandro Rodriguez on Monday at a hospital where he was being treated for a gunshot wound to the abdomen from an unrelated shooting in Denver.

Chavez turned himself into police Wednesday. He is being held at the Las Animas County jail on $45,000 bond. He faces charges of first-degree burglary, first-degree trespassing, conspiracy, menacing and attempted theft.

Police say Rory Rodriguez was from Denver but his brother had lived down the street from the Trinidad home that was the target of the home invasion robbery.

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