An Arapahoe County jury today found 29-year-old Joshua David Swan guilty in the gang-related killing of an alleged snitch in 2001.
The victim, Lamont Monroe, was 17 when he was shot to death while sitting in his car on 13th Place in Aurora after Swan and another gang member, Edward Brown, approached the car and began shooting.
The pair thought Monroe was helping police in investigating the shooting death of DeMarco Taylor, 19, at 14th Avenue and Trenton Street in Aurora.
Brown was later arrested in Texas, confessed to both shootings and named Swan as his accomplice in Monroe’s death. Brown was sentenced to consecutive life sentences.
The latest verdict in Monroe’s death is the third against Swan, after two previous convictions were overturned because of evidence allowed by the trial judge, according to the Arapahoe County district attorney’s office.
According to prosecutors, Swan bragged to other gang members that he and Brown were “smoking” people in order to get “hood respect.”
