The suspect in the shooting death of a 19-year-old man beat the victim with a handgun before firing the fatal shots, according to court documents.
Quent Scaggs, 21, is being held in the death of Aaron Garcia last week. He died of multiple gunshot wounds suffered Thursday night in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart on Smith Road in the Stapleton area.
According to an affidavit in the case, Scaggs fired the fatal shots from the back seat of a Pontiac Grand Prix as Garcia sat in the front passenger seat.
The driver of the car fled on foot, and Scaggs climbed over the back seat and into the driver’s seat and drove off. Police found the car — with Garcia still in it — a short time later in the 3600 block alley between Oneida and Newport streets.
The incident started with Garcia and the driver of the car, whose name was redacted from the affidavit, driving to a home to pick up “another friend (Scaggs), who wanted a ride to a liquor store,” the affidavit said.
The trio wound up at the Wal-Mart parking lot, where Scaggs asked Garcia “where the money was?” Garcia replied, “Let’s do this outside,” and Scaggs struck him with the gun from the back seat and then shot him several times.
After fleeing the shooting scene, the driver called a cousin to pick him up, and he told her what had happened. She drove back to the Wal-Mart and talked to police.
