Woman arrested in killing of sister's boyfriend

A Security woman shot and killed her sister's boyfriend Thursday night during a fight outside his mobile home near Fort Carson, El Paso County sheriff's spokeswoman Lt. Lari Sevene said.

Denise L. Presson, 28, was arrested without incident shortly after 28-year-old Victor San Miguel was shot in the 8100 block of Piute Road, off Colorado Highway 115, Sevene said.

According to Sevene, the two were quarreling as part of "an ongoing domestic dispute" when the fight turned violent. San Miguel's girlfriend and her two children - ages 5 and 12 - were at home at the time of the shooting, but they were not harmed, Sevene said.

"There's some background in there that we don't have quite cleared up," she said.
Presson was placed in El Paso County jail without bond. The children did not witness the shooting.

Deputies were called at 10:15 p.m. Thursday. They found San Miguel lying on his porch with a gunshot wound in the chest and were told the shooter had left in a white Mazda.
Fountain police spotted the vehicle and alerted deputies, who assisted police officers in arresting Presson after she arrived home in the 500 block of Norman Drive, Sevene said.

An autopsy on San Miguel was planned for today.

The man's death will likely mark the sixth homicide in unincorporated El Paso County this year. That total includes the June 22 death of Scott Montgomery, who was fatally shot by a sheriff's deputy at his Crystal Park home in what the 4th Judicial District Attorney's Office later determined was self-defense.

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