CASPER, Wyo. — Casper police arrested the suspect in an alleged Fremont County homicide last week at an apartment near the city’s downtown.
Because of the alleged crime’s violent nature, police established a perimeter around the building on the 600 block of East Second Street on Wednesday afternoon, August 23.
“Ultimately, the suspect was taken into custody without incident,” Casper Police Department spokesperson Rebekah Ladd told Oil City News on Wednesday.
According to court records in Fremont County, Alejandro R. Behan, 22, has been charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of a juvenile aged 13 or 14 (born in 2011). It claims that he acted with malice but not premeditation.
According to Fremont County Sheriff’s Office deputy Anthony Armstrong’s affidavit, the victim was discovered lying in a driveway on Honor Farm Road in Riverton in the early morning hours of August 23 with an obvious stab wound in the back and was pronounced dead on the scene.
Deputies and EMS arrived to find two other juveniles on the scene, including the victim’s twin brother. They claimed that they had been feuding with another group of people on Snapchat, and that as they walked down Honor Farm Road, an SUV pulled up, and nearly a dozen people got out and started fighting.
According to the affidavit, the witnesses believe Snapchat’s map function directed the group in the SUV to their location.
During the investigation, deputies discovered a social media video of the fight and identified the source as a juvenile male. He stated that he and others in his group had visited Behan’s home on Honor Farm Road prior to the fight and returned there afterward.
Other witnesses interviewed by deputies stated that Behan had grabbed a knife from the kitchen prior to the fight and later claimed to have “stabbed a guy” and “threw the knife” in a yard.
Deputies discovered a bloodied kitchen knife at the edge of a yard on Clearview Drive.
According to the affidavit, during an interview with the sheriff’s office two days after his arrest in Casper, Behan reportedly stated that he “poked” the victim in the back and grabbed the knife because he believed his opponents would be armed, despite the fact that no one in his group was.
Behan was issued a $500,000 cash-only bond in Fremont County Circuit Court. Unless proven or pleaded guilty, he is presumed innocent.
