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The views and opinions expressed in Cold and Missing are exclusively those of the hosts.
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All parties mentioned are considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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Cold and Missing also contains adult themes and languages.
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Listener discretion is advised.
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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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End quote.
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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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I definitely remember maybe a couple like small groups of people like hanging near the
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front door, but never anyone who was on patrol specifically protecting the people inside.
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But that rings true to what he was like as a person.
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I just find it interesting that he did that.
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And I wonder if that was something something he did at other parties that had happened
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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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Yeah, I believe Julian's mother said, you know, he was being a hero, like he was doing
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something like brave.
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And you know, I think truly he was like being a guardian over everyone at that party because
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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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Yeah, the generation, you know, right after us were in our mid 30s, like active shooter
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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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And it's so sad that kids have to be on guard like that and that Julian lost his life to
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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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And if not, then why haven't more witnesses come forward with descriptions if they were
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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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But it just seems like a lot of people and granted not all 90 eyes would have been on
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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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