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An 18-year-old is facing a murder charge after a man was found shot to death in Shakopee’s Wilkie Park earlier this month.
According to the complaint filed on Friday, Emilio Vallejo Ortiz is charged with second-degree murder for the death of a 53-year-old man. The complaint says the man was found Oct. 4 in weeds off a trail at Wilkie Park with dried blood on his face and signs he had been dragged.
Investigators said they found a large pool of blood, drag marks, three spent 9 mm casings, and one live 9 mm round near the trail. The complaint says an autopsy found four gunshot wounds and ruled the death a homicide.
Court records say the man’s phone was found about 130 feet north of his body after officers used phone data and called it until they heard it ringing in dense vegetation. A gun had not been found as of the filing, despite searches with gun-sniffing dogs and mowing in the area, according to the c...
