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3 charged with Aurora's first homicide in more than year

(MCT) — Three men have been charged with Aurora's first homicide in more than a year, an 18-year-old woman whose beaten and burned body was found over the weekend in a wooded area.

Police say Juan Garnica Jr., 18, beat Abigail Villalpando with a hammer at the home of Enrique Prado, 19, Thursday afternoon. The two then bought a can of gasoline at a station Friday morning, and Garnica burned Vallalpando's body is a barrel in the backyard of Prado's home in the 400 block of Jefferson Street, police said.

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