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Brandon Sanchez

Case from Grand Junction, CO dated Sep 16, 2018

Victim Details

Brandon Sanchez

Male

Hispanic / Latino

Grand Junction

CO

2018-09-16

26

Brandon

Sanchez

07/25/2026

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In the early morning of September 16, 2018, a confrontation at a home in Grand Junction, Colorado, ended in the shooting death of 26-year-old Brandon Ray Sanchez. Responding to a call, Mesa County sheriff's deputies found Sanchez's body outside a residence at 3116 Chipeta Avenue. The shooter was identified as Melissa Pruitt, a 34-year-old woman who was a renter in a makeshift bedroom in the garage of the house.

The events leading up to the fatal shooting were contentious. Witnesses at the ...
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  • Man arrested in assault where another man died
  • Man dies in morning shooting in Clifton
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