{"id":68884,"date":"2016-09-28T22:51:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T04:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/suspect-in-fort-lewis-killing-considers-plea-deal\/"},"modified":"2016-09-29T04:51:33","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T04:51:33","slug":"suspect-in-fort-lewis-killing-considers-plea-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/suspect-in-fort-lewis-killing-considers-plea-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in Fort Lewis killing considers plea deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=521c6451-e6f6-486a-9459-e9a391a1f8e5&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1150\" height=\"1756\" alt=\"Daniel Nelson Wright, 20, of Phoenix, appears in court May 20 in connection to the slaying of Fort Lewis College student Samuel Gordon. Gordon was shot and killed during an attempted marijuana robbery at his home.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Daniel Nelson Wright, 20, of Phoenix, appears in court May 20 in connection to the slaying of Fort Lewis College student Samuel Gordon. Gordon was shot and killed during an attempted marijuana robbery at his home.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>One of four men suspected of storming into a house and killing an occupant in a marijuana heist gone bad indicated Wednesday he is close to striking a plea agreement in the case.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Nelson Wright, 20, waived his right to a preliminary hearing Wednesday, saying the 6th Judicial District Attorney\u2019s Office has made a plea offer that he is considering. Had he gone through with the preliminary hearing \u2013 in which prosecutors must present enough evidence to convince a judge that a crime was committed and the defendant is connected with it \u2013 the plea deal could have been taken off the table.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the proposed plea agreement were not made public Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Wright is charged with first-degree murder, burglary, robbery and menacing.<\/p>\n<p>He and three co-defendants \u2013 Kodi \u201cMaz\u201d E. Kuauhtli, 19, of Phoenix; Alvin Noel Flores, 22, of Phoenix; and Kuauhtleko Garcia, 21, of Scottsdale, Arizona \u2013 are suspected of breaking into a townhome with masks and guns in an effort to rob Samuel Xarius Gordon, 20, of his nine pounds of illegal marijuana and nearly $20,000 in cash.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred shortly after 3:30 a.m. May 24 at 253 Jenkins Ranch Road in the SkyRidge subdivision.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said one of the suspects shot and killed Gordon during the robbery, but they have not revealed which of the men is suspected of pulling the trigger.<\/p>\n<p>Flores has been ordered to trial, and preliminary hearings are pending for Kuauhtli and Garcia.<\/p>\n<p>Wright\u2019s family members have attended nearly every court hearing since his arrest.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:shane@durangoherald.com\">shane@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>waives right to preliminary hearing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,133,168,13,131,135],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-68884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-courts","tag-crime","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-homicide","tag-marijuana"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68884"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=68884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}