Homicide detectives have determined that a self-defense claim in the May 26 fatal shooting death of Eliel Arnoldo Ortiz, 16, is without merit, and today swore out a warrant charging Jorge Dominguez, 43, with criminal homicide.
Ortiz was killed during a dispute in the parking lot of Longwood at Southern Hills Apartments on Wallace Road. After the shooting, Dominguez fled the apartment complex and was soon located by TITANS (The Investigative Team Addressing Neighborhood Shootings) detectives at a Briley Parkway motel. Inside his car were five ounces of meth, a pound of marijuana, three semi-automatic pistols and a rifle.
Dominguez was arrested that night on two unrelated felony aggravated assault warrants and a vandalism charge for firing a shot in the window of a Murfreesboro Pike convenience market on April 16 after a clerk refused to sell him alcohol due to his lack of identification. He has also been charged federally with being a felon in possession of a firearm, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute.
Detective Chris Cote is leading the investigation into the fatal shooting of Ortiz.
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