DENVER (KDVR) — On July 8, 2011, Armando Mata-Magallanes called his girlfriend and his roommate asking them to sell his truck.
A day later, he was found shot to death on the side of Interstate 76 in Weld County. Now, 14 years later, the Weld County Sheriff’s Office is still trying to find the unknown man who was apparently holding Mata-Magallanes for ransom for the truck money and later killed him.
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According to a Weld County press release, Mata-Magallanes’ girlfriend reported him missing on the evening of July 8, 2011, after she had last seen him leave for work around 5:30 a.m. He was supposed to have returned at about 2:30 p.m.
She told investigators at the time Mata-Magallanes had called her after leaving for work saying he needed money and asked her to sell his truck…