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I'm your host, Ali McLaughlin-Sulkowski.

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And I'm your co-host, Eli Sulkowski.

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And this is Cold and Missing, where we cover cold cases.

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And missing person cases.

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Hello, welcome back to Cold and Missing.

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I'm Ali.

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And I'm Eli.

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Welcome back, everyone.

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We're on episode 93 this week.

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And this is a cold case, I believe.

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Yes, we're on a cold case.

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Do you think we should just go ahead and get into it?

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Let's do it.

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Today, we are covering the cold case of Julian Quintero.

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And this takes place in Oak Hills, which is in Monterey County, California.

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This Oak Hills is an unincorporated community.

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There is another Oak Hills, California that is more Southern California, while this is

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Northern California.

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Oak Hills, Monterey County is near Salinas, California and Castroville.

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And this takes place in January of 2017.

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But first, a little bit about Julian.

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Julian is 20 years old in 2017.

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He had grown up in Castroville, California.

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And he had recently graduated from North Monterey County High School, where he had lettered

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in football, track and baseball.

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In my high school, that was like a big deal if you triple lettered in something.

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It was, there was like a ceremony every year for each athlete who did it.

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Or you know, we had them for the arts, like I lettered in drama.

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So there was like a big ceremony if you got three of something.

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Julian was very popular at his high school.

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He was even voted prom king his senior year.

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After high school, he started to attend the Monterey Peninsula College, but he had plans

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to transfer to a bigger four year college.

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Julian's nickname was Captain for his favorite character, Captain America.

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He loved what the character stood for, standing up to bullies, choosing to do what's right

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in the face of what's difficult, and choosing your own destiny.

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Julian's mother, Lupe, said, quote, he liked what Captain America stood for.

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Captain America stood for people, end quote.

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I know it tends to be a cliche in the true crime community, but Julian's smile truly

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lit up his whole face and therefore the whole room.

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Gilbert II, Julian's older brother, said, quote, my little brother was universally loved.

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He was always smiling.

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He was very happy, very vibrant.

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Julian is probably the only person I've ever met I could never be angry at.

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He did everything great.

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He was good at sports, popular at school, extremely good looking.

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He was just a perfect kid, end quote.

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Julian was truly a superhero.

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He worked multiple jobs to support himself and his education, but he still found time

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for his family and friends.

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Everyone that Julian encountered seemed to be a better person because of it.

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It truly seems like his brother said that he was universally loved.

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And now a timeline of events.

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On Saturday, June 21, 2017, Julian had been invited to a house party.

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It was a party being thrown for the nearby high school seniors.

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Julian, being in college and already graduated, wasn't too keen on going.

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After some convincing, he decided to go.

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He told his mom and before leaving the house, his mother Lupe reminded him that if he needed

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a ride, he could call her and she would come get him no problem.

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By the time Julian arrived at the party in Oak Hills, California, it was in full swing.

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There were around 90 people there.

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Upon arriving, Julian assumed the role of bouncer.

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He wanted to make sure that no one got into the party that wasn't invited.

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However, word began to spread around the community about the party.

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Shortly after assuming the role of bouncer, around 11.51 p.m., some uninvited guests arrived

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at the party.

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It's unclear exactly how many people showed up in this group of uninvited guests.

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All we know for sure is that it was more than one person.

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Since Julian was manning the door and these folks were not invited, he refused to let

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them in.

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Pretty quickly, a verbal argument turns into a fight.

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Again, there are no real details about what happened during the fight or even how many

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people were involved in it outside of Julian.

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The fight ends with gunshots.

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Julian had been shot three times in the back.

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His mom is still up and waiting for him to come home.

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Her phone began to ring.

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She assumed that Julian was calling because he needed a ride.

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Luke Bay says, quote, So when I got the phone call a little bit before midnight, I got a

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call from his phone and I thought, okay, here I go.

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I'm going to go pick him up, you know.

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But then they told me that he got shot and they were taking him to Natividad.

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Natividad is a hospital in nearby Salinas, California.

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It's unclear if it was on the way to the hospital or at the hospital.

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But in the early morning hours of January 22nd, 2017, Julian passes away.

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On January 29th, this is just one week after the murder of Julian.

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His family hold a vigil and a march in honor of his memory.

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A member of the vigil said, quote, Our community is going to take a stand.

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This is not what this community represents.

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Over a thousand people showed up to march for Julian.

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Almost all of them were wearing a Captain America shirt.

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Over the next year, it's unclear exactly what is done in Julian's case.

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What seems clear is that the police are waiting for witnesses from the party to come forward.

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As mentioned before, it's reported that at least 90 people were at the party.

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So somebody knows something.

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In December of 2017, it's approaching a full year since Julian's death.

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The family write a memorial to Julian in the paper.

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It says, quote, It's so hard to comprehend you are no longer physically here.

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What I would give to have one more kiss, hug, hear your voice and be able to tell you how

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much I love you and so proud of you I am.

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May God hear our prayers for justice that you and others desperately deserve.

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You died being a hero and doing the right thing.

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I love you, my precious son, end quote.

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In September of 2018, so this is a year and a half since Julian's murder, his parents

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speak at a gathering for the National Day of Remembrance, which is held to remember

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murder victims.

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His dad, Gilbert Quintero says, quote, I wish I could have been there.

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I go to his grave and I cry and I smoke my cigarette and I talk to him.

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I miss my son.

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He was my best friend and he knew everything about me.

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Because of him, I've been clean for 15 years.

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I want justice, end quote.

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In January of 2020, so it had been three years since Julian was killed, and still police

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have no leads in their case.

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At the three year mark, his mother Lupe says, quote, I just want today to be a reflection

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of Julian's love.

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I don't want sadness.

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I want to choose the good memories of his life.

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I want to choose what Julian signified to each one of us.

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And a lot of that is love.

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And I just don't want to give up on the pursuit of justice, end quote.

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In July of 2020, so it's been three and a half years since Julian was murdered at the

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House Party, Julian's mother Lupe firmly believes that people know who the uninvited

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party guests were.

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There were a lot of witnesses to Julian's murder.

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However, despite there being so many people at the party, no substantial leads have been

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developed in the case.

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Lupe says, quote, it's devastating to lose a child.

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It is the worst pain you can ever imagine.

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I don't care about my feelings.

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I want justice for Julian, end quote.

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But that is truly all we know about the murder of Julian Quintero.

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So if you know anything, please call the Monterey County Sheriff's Office at 888-833-4847.

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So that is the case of Julian Quintero.

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I'm sure that I will mention her more than once, but I first just want to send my love

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out to Julian's mom.

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The love she has for her son and family is so palpable.

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And this is a loss, you know, that I don't understand fully.

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But I just really felt the weight of what she must be going through and sending my love

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to her.

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And I'm sure our listeners are as well.

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Yeah, unfortunately, I couldn't find a ton of information.

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And some of our listeners might have noticed in the last few episodes, they've been a

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little shorter just because maybe they're newer in years.

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So there hasn't been years of coverage on a case.

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But I still think that these are just as important to tell and I want to get into them.

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And a big part of, you know, all the information I was able to gather was because of Julian's

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mother.

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And she's worked so hard to have justice for her son and to try to get answers and to keep

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his name like going in the media.

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She's like, she's not backing down and she's not going anywhere.

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And like her, the power behind her is like very palpable.

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Like she's a very strong woman.

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Yes, they're incredibly strong.

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And that strength was so clearly passed down to Julian.

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It sounded like he was living his life exactly the way she raised him.

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And though I haven't seen a picture of him yet, I in hearing about him and the way he

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lived his life, I could hear and almost feel his smile and the way that you talked about

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him, which really just paves the way for such a devastating heartbreak of a loss and not

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having this young man here anymore.

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Something that I found very interesting about him and just the environment he was in that

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night and being at the party is that he assumed that position of bouncer at the door and,

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you know, I had been to my fair share of high school parties when I was in high school and

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I don't ever really remember anyone doing something like that with the intention of

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I don't want anyone to get in that shouldn't be here.

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front door, but never anyone who was on patrol specifically protecting the people inside.

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I just find it interesting that he did that.

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throughout high school years amongst his friends.

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I'd be curious to know or if it if he had a feeling that night, you know.

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something like brave.

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people did try to get in that had a gun, you know, like there could have been multiple

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tragedies at this party that night, depending on how everything shook out.

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If Julian wasn't at that door, like you just don't know.

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But it's like these people were trying to get into a high school party with a gun.

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Like there's no reason for that.

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So you know, he was truly being a hero as just like acting as a guardian.

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Something that I think is important to say or maybe worth mentioning is that Julian and

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all of the high schoolers at that party are no stranger to gun violence, not a single

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one of them.

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And I mean this in the best way, with the best of intentions and so delicately.

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But like children, including Julian, should not have to be heroes in the face of gun violence

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in any capacity.

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drills in schools was like a necessary part, unfortunately, of the curriculum.

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Like it's just something that all schools had had to kind of be ready for.

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And unfortunately, like time and time again, like we've seen that it happens anywhere.

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You know, there's no rhyme or reason and everyone unfortunately has to be prepared.

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gun violence.

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And that's unfair as an understatement.

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And it's tragic.

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It's just tragic.

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For me, I think one of the biggest questions in this case, besides, you know, who were

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these uninvited guests exactly, is like kind of identifying every person that was at that

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party.

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There were 90 people there.

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It's hard to imagine that granted it is a possibility, but it's hard to imagine that

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these people and again, we don't know how big the group was if it was two, three, four,

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five people that showed up uninvited that they were cruising around happened upon a

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party and we're just going to like go inside.

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I mean, that is a possibility.

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But to me, it kind of sounds like, oh, they were told by someone.

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So like, how do you break down that chain of communication?

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Who told them?

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Were they told by somebody who was told by somebody like, either way, if somebody knows

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them, somebody knows who these people are, I deeply feel that.

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complete strangers and nobody's protecting anybody?

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It's just somebody knows something and 90 people, somebody saw something, somebody saw

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the car, somebody and maybe police do have more information than what we have.

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this when it happened.

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That's a lot of people.

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They were probably spread throughout the house.

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But I'm sure there were people who saw it.

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A lot of people, I would imagine.

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I would think that with whatever an investigation for a crime like this looks like, would just

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from the beginning would be so messy because you are relying on the memory of children

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who have maybe been drinking or, you know, what have you, in a moment where they're also

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probably terrified and traumatized because like we said, they are no strangers to gun

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violence or the concept of gun violence or preparing for gun violence.

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So that sort of trauma they're already carrying, carrying around.

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And it's in a moment.

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It sounded like it escalated very quickly.

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Like it wasn't slowly over time, like maybe just a handful of minutes.

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If it was all moving very swiftly, very quickly, that's a lot of people, a lot of chaos in

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just a few minutes.

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I feel for the people who have to dig through this investigation because I imagine it's

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very difficult to find clear answers.

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I do hope that the police are proactive and not just waiting for people to come forward.

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Hopefully they have a few witnesses and you know, you get the names of the people that

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they know were there.

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You get the people talk to those people and, you know, go on and on until you can kind

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of build a tree of everybody who was there.

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So I'm hoping that, you know, investigators are diligent and doing that and not just waiting

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for somebody to come forward.

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Yeah, I mean, this didn't happen that long ago.

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Something that actually crossed my mind was I have a few coworkers that would fit the

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same age as what the party goers at the time would be now.

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And sometimes when I talk to my coworkers, some of a lot of the memories that they speak

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about will be from high school, which is interesting to me.

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Also college or, you know, whatever they did after high school, if it wasn't college, you

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know, those those memories aren't that long ago.

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And something like that.

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I think if you were a close witness to it, it would be something that stuck around in

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your head.

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And I would hope that those people, if they have those memories, they they do the right

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things with them.

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I I'm trying to make space for the fact that maybe they're afraid for whatever reason.

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And I, I can understand and make space for that as like, this is a space that I've never

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been in, you know, something I've never had to think about.

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So I'm hoping that there were more people around in that moment who remember.

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I'm really hopeful in this case as well that, you know, as the years go on and just situations

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change, people move, you know, people get married, they have babies, like perspectives

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change that somebody has a change of heart and comes forward or wants to tell their story

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of what they know to try to help give this family justice.

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I really think that we could see that in this case and see somebody coming forward and kind

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of being like a hero like Julian was and bringing this case home and getting justice for his

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family.

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Yeah, you said a thousand people showed up for that vigil and that March, thinking about

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90 people in a thousand.

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I bet some of them were there, you know, like in numbers, it just seems statistically possible

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or almost inevitable that someone will say something in this case.

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Yeah, the March was really breathtaking to see.

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There's a couple of photos of it, which we'll put on our Instagram where you just see a

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huge line of people.

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Like it extends out of the photo in the background and they all have the Captain American shirts

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on or, you know, Captain America sweatshirts and like headbands and all sorts of things.

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Like everyone really showed up for him and, you know, wanted to be there in numbers, in

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mass, because he had such a big impact.

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It makes sense that this March would have would draw so many people like they had to

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be there for him too.

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Again, if you know anything about the murder of Julian Quintero in January of 2017, please

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call the Monterey County Sheriff's Office at 888-833-4847.

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And like every week and like I've mentioned, we'll have photos of Julian and the March

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that was held in his honor up on our Instagram, so you can follow us there at Colden Missing

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But that is all that I have.

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Thank you so much for listening to Colden Missing.

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