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Fugitive may be hiding among Mormons

Posted 11/26/12

SALT LAKE CITY — A one-time Salt Lake City resident sought in the fatal shooting of an Arizona armored truck courier could be taking advantage of philanthropic Mormon church members, the FBI’s lead agent on the case said.

Jason Brown is accused of shooting Robert Keith Palomares five times in the head at close range with a .45-caliber handgun on Nov. 29, 2004, outside a Phoenix theater. The FBI says Brown made off with $56,000 on a bicycle he ditched that yielded his fingerprints.

The last confirmed sighting of Brown was in August 2008, when a friend spotted the fugitive at a stoplight near the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City, where he lived just months prior to the murder. He bought a handgun at a Kearns gun store two weeks before the crime, and the weapon was later linked to Palomares’ death.

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