The man arrested by Casper police on Wednesday after negotiating his surrender is the suspect in the fatal stabbing of a male juvenile last Saturday north of Riverton, according to the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office.
Alejandro Behan, 22, was arrested Wednesday after surrendering to police following a brief standoff near Veteran’s Park on Second Street in Casper, four days after a teenage boy was discovered dead on Honor Farm Road north of Riverton on August 23.
Behan was charged with stabbing the youth on Friday and is being held at the Fremont County Detention Center, according to a statement released by the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office.
The Casper Police Department arrested Behan on an unrelated warrant at the request of the FCSO.
Saturday
At 3:58 a.m. on Aug. 23, the Fremont County Dispatch Center received a 911 call reporting that a male had been stabbed in the 100 Block of Honor Farm Road.
Sheriff’s deputies and Riverton Police Department officers responded to the scene and contacted a group of juveniles on the side of Honor Farm Road, according to a sheriff’s office statement released Friday.
One juvenile male was unconscious with an apparent stab wound. Law enforcement and emergency medical personnel attempted to provide medical aid, but their efforts were unsuccessful, and the youth was pronounced dead on the scene.
An investigation revealed that a large group of males who knew each other had been involved in a physical altercation that resulted in the teen’s fatal stabbing.
Before law enforcement arrived, the suspect and several of the other parties involved had fled the scene. Some people remained on the scene, including at least one person questioned while in investigative custody.
The Arrest
After Casper police evacuated two businesses late Wednesday afternoon and then negotiated the surrender of a man now identified as Behan on the second floor of the building, his mother told a Cowboy State Daily reporter at the scene was wanted for homicide.
A woman walking around the building introduced herself as Robin Behan, the suspect’s mother.
She stated that her son, Alejandro Behan, had “gone back home” to Riverton for a visit, “and it turns out he was wanted for homicide.”
She claimed she knew nothing about the alleged homicide and was unaware of the charge until that day.
“I thought he was wanted for probation, that’s why the cops were looking for him,” she told me. “I got their phone number and told him to call them. By that time, the cops had arrived in large numbers.
“I said, ‘I don’t know what you did, but you need to wake up and go,'” she told me. “And I came out and that’s when all the cops were here and they asked me if he was there, and I told them, ‘Yes.'”
She stated that her son refused to surrender and that the officers “had to go in and get him,” but he did not resist them.
Robin Behan stated that her son was trying to change his life and that they were staying at a homeless shelter.
Prior to the stabbing, Behan had an arrest warrant out of Fremont County.
On July 3, Fremont County Deputy Attorney Jane Juve requested and received a warrant on her petition to revoke Behan’s probation for a domestic battery conviction on December 4.
Behan was sentenced to a year of supervised probation after serving 59 days in jail during his trial in that case.
Juve alleged in her petition that he violated his probation by being arrested for DUI on the Wind River Indian Reservation.
He was placed on probation by the tribal court, according to the petition.
