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Joey Durán was shot and killed by a woman (PHOTOS)

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  • Joey Duran was shot to death in Taylorsville, Utah, in a shooting.
  • Sofía Penrod, 21, is already in custody for being the alleged murderer of the Hispanic.
  • Durán was the father of four children and was someone who «had a lot of love for his family and friends.»

Joey Duran was shot to death in Utah on Friday in the middle of a confrontation between several young men for a reason that is not yet known. The Hispanic couldn’t get to know his baby, because his wife had just given birth on Wednesday and remained hospitalized with the little boy, so he could not even be with her, much less say goodbye.

The agents of the Homicide Division of the Greater Salt Lake Unified Police Department (UPDSL) arrested the girl Sofía Penrod, 21, for being the alleged murderer of Joey Durán, 30, after she shot him dead in the middle of what was allegedly a party of several young people, on Friday night June 3, 2021.

Joey Durán was shot and killed and the motive is still unknown

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Joey Duran, a father of four, was shot to death in Utah after being gunned down by allegedly a woman who is already in custody. (PHOTO: Courtesy of the Durán Martínez Family)

According to the official report of the case, consulted by MundoHispánicoOn Friday night at 11:30 p.m. the UPDSL emergency number received a call from several neighbors reporting a shooting at the Atherton Park Apartments complex at 545 South Atherton Drive in Taylorsville.

The city of Taylorsville is a southeastern suburb of the metropolitan area of Salt lake city. Neighbors who reported the shooting said that the sounds of bullets were very intense and even revealed to authorities that the incident had them terrified and sheltered in their apartments, fearing that something serious could happen to them.

Joey Durán was thrown in a pool of his own blood

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Joe Durán was the father of four children and, according to his family, he was a man who always made them in a good mood thanks to his jokes. (PHOTO: Durán Martínez family)

When the first UPDSL patrols arrived at the Atherton Park Apartments they found real chaos, with the neighbors totally terrified by what had just happened. Neighbors told officers that a Hispanic man was wounded by gunshots in an area of ​​the parking lot.

The agents arrived at the place indicated by the residents and found a man lying face down and who was in a pool of blood that came out profusely from his body. UPDSL agents asked paramedics to urgently transfer the wounded man, who was identified as Joey Durán.

The wounded man dies in a hospital due to the severity of his injuries

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The murder of Joey Durán is still under investigation to find out what motivated his shooting murder in an apartment complex (PHOTO: Courtesy of the Durán Martínez Family)

However, when Joey Durán was in emergency surgery with doctors fighting to save his life, they could no longer do anything to prevent his death. The man’s injuries were so many and so serious that he died in the emergency operating room in the Intermountain Medical Centerfrom Salt Lake City.

When Joey Durán’s death was confirmed, UPDSL Homicide Division agents took up the case. The first thing agents investigated was the large shooting, as several homes in the Atherton Park Apartments were shot on all three floors of the apartments.

A hail of bullets that scared the neighbors

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PHOTO: Taken from Facebook

The agents of the UPDSL Homicide Division, according to the investigation of the case, recovered casings of bullets outside the apartments located on the second floor of one of the buildings and outside the departments 76 and 77, scattered throughout the Hall.

In addition, in the garden in front of the first-floor apartments, on the lawn, the agents also found still more shells about 20 feet from the area where the badly wounded body of Joey Durán was found. The documents do not detail the caliber of the bushings found at the scene.

Young Sofia Penrod appears at the crime scene

PHOTO: Taken from Facebook

During their investigation, agents from the UPDSL Homicide Division entered department 76, just to find out if no one was injured at the scene. Some neighbors told officers that the shooting had started outside that apartment.

A young girl came out of one of the apartment’s bedrooms and the agents began to investigate her and, given the presumption of the commission of a crime in the death of Joey Durán, the detectives of the Homicide Division decided to take the girl to the headquarters. of the corporation for questioning.

Sofia Penrod falls into various contradictions and lies

PHOTO: Taken from Facebook

During the interrogations, the young Sofía Penrod fell into several contradictions and tried to lie to the agents of the UPDSL Homicide Division in relation to the events in which Joey Durán died. In her talk with the agents, the girl changed her version of events several times.

First, Sofía Penrod assured the UPDSL Homicide Division agents that she was asleep inside the department taking care of her half sister, when she heard shots and woke up although she did not know what had happened, who had shot, or even that a Hispanic man had died.

Messages on social networks were taken as evidence

PHOTO: Taken from Facebook

The agents continued to question Sofía Penrod about the death of Joey Durán and the woman admitted that she did know the murdered man, since he was her cousin. The sudden revelation of the girl changed the entire course of the investigation into Durán’s homicide for detectives with the Homicide Division.

Then, one of the agents asked the judge who was on duty to grant them an order to search Sofía Penrod’s cell phone, to see if there was something there that connected her with the murder of Joey Durán. The agents found several messages related to the shooting on the girl’s social networks.

Why was Joey Durán killed?

PHOTO: Taken from Facebook

The agents of the UPDSL Homicide Division detail that one of the messages was directly related to the shooting in which Joey Durán died and said: “The Coco family just arrived, Booboo shot them… my brother and I challenged a n … From outside, he messed with the children, I’m alone n… ”, the document details Penrod’s arrest.

Sofía Penrod is already being held in the Salt Lake County jail, charged with the murder of Joey Duran and obstruction of justice after she lied to authorities. In the documents of the case against him, it is not detailed what motivated the murder of Joey Durán, since the crime is still under investigation.

«Our beloved Joey Durán was taken from us»

PHOTO: Taken from Facebook

Constance Montoya, aunt of the deceased today, opened the account Help Raise Money for Joey Durán Funeral Expenses (Help us raise money for the funeral expenses of Joey Durán), in the social network Go Fund Me, to help Bernadette Martínez, the mother of the murdered man, so that she can pay for the chastity that the murder has caused her family.

“Our beloved Joey Durán was taken from us… he had a lot of love for his family and friends,” Montoya said to describe his murdered nephew and explained that the man was “a son, father, brother-grandson and affectionate nephew who leaves behind four beautiful children, ”Montoya explained about the life of the murdered man. Joey’s aunt revealed that her nephew was newly married and their baby was just born Wednesday. “Joey didn’t even meet his newborn son. Because his new wife and son had complications, they remained in the hospital without even being able to say goodbye, ”the grieving woman wrote on Facebook.

Joey Durán was a man «loved by many»

Joey Durán’s family is now asking the community for help to pay for his funeral expenses after he was shot to death. (PHOTO: Courtesy of the Durán Martínez Family)

Joey Durán, according to his aunt Constance Montoya, was a man “loved by many and we would appreciate any love and support from anyone who can help our family in this difficult time. We will miss his crazy jokes, his big smile and his loving heart it was a true blessing, ”Montoya said of the personality of his murdered nephew.

The UPDSL Homicide Division agents are still investigating the case in the homicide of Joey Durán to find out what motivated the confrontation that ended with gunshots and if, in addition to the young Sofía Penrod, there are more people involved in the shooting that scared the victims. neighbors of the apartment complex.

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