RFP Staff
♦ All hell broke loose Sunday night in the 400 block of West Thomas Street in Salisbury as a pitch gun battle disrupted the normally quiet neighborhood. A firefight lit up both sides of the West Thomas with muzzle flashes and the quick bursts of automatic gunfire. Neighbors hunkered down in the limited safety of their houses. The sharp reports of bap-bap-bap soon subsided.
Within minutes Salisbury Police patrol cars descended on the neighborhood. Detectives on the scene immediately recognized the house at 422 West Thomas–they’d been summoned to it many times in the past. It was the former digs of the late Miquel Angel Urrutia, 24, gunned down in his Chrysler on a lonely road back in March.
No one was reported shot Sunday night. However, some 14 empty shell casings were found on the ground near a driveway across the street.
Here is the March 17th article about the unsolved murder of Angel Miquel Urrutia:
“This morning the RFP received a number of calls and emails concerning a homicide investigation taking place in the vicinity of the intersection of Hawkinstown Road and Old Mocksville Road in Salisbury. The scene was alive with police vehicles and investigators questioning people in the area.
The homicide victim was identified as Miquel Angel Urrutia,24, of West Thomas Street. Witnesses are saying a person got out of Urrutia’s Chrysler and drove off in another vehicle.
Called to the scene at approximately 6:30 a.m., the police originally thought it to be a car crash prior to deciding it was a homicide of yet to be determined causes. The black Chrysler sedan was found in a ditch by the side of the road. This afternoon it was confirmed by investigators Urrutia was shot.
Yellow CRIME SCENE DO NOT CROSS tapes are stretched across the roadway and the black sedan was pulled out of the ditch by a flatbed tow truck. The area is a curve in the road where no homes or buildings are present. A desolate no man’s land.”
Urrutia’s Criminal Record:
The Late Miquel Angel Urrutia:
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