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College Student Shot Dead Near Durango, Suspect Arrested

by KREX News Room
by Associated Press

Story Created: Aug 19, 2012 at 9:06 PM MDT

Story Updated: Aug 20, 2012 at 7:57 AM MDT

LA PLATA COUNTY, Colo.- Authorities say a college student from Utah has been shot to death in the San Juan National Forest in southwest Colorado and a suspect has been arrested.

La Plata County sheriff's deputies say they found the body of 26-year-old David Alan Jones at a campsite about 20 miles north of Durango at about 2 a.m. Saturday after receiving 911 calls of a shooting.

Deputies arrested 37-year-old Brenden Dow Ashburn of Durango on suspicion of first-degree murder. He's being held without bail.

Jones was from Woods Cross, Utah, and attended Fort Lewis College in Durango.

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