Coronado killings: Girl, 16, and boy, 15, executed over missing purse, new records say
Sixteen-year-old Natalie Cano-Partida was told she would at least get to tell her family goodbye. When she didn't act quickly enough, her killers took the cell phone they had offered her and proceeded with their grim business - shooting her and 15-year-old Derek Greer at close range during a dual execution at a country roadside near Fountain. They died over a stolen purse, according to previously sealed court documents released Thursday . The shocking account of the teens' March 11 slayings, made public on orders from an El Paso County judge , marks the first public indication that the Coronado High School students died of multiple gunshot wounds at the same remote location where their bodies were found March 12 - off Old Pueblo Road, a place apparently chosen at random during a harrowing abduction that began in Colorado Springs . Cano-Partida was the target, and Greer was "only murdered because he was with (her)," one of the suspects told police . The records s...
