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- Vincent Tijerina, who was killed in Ogden on Sept. 21, faced a civil judgment two weeks prior.
- Johnathon Lemus and Joshua Nava face criminal charges related to Tijerina's death.
- Tijerina allegedly deceived his father in a property dispute before his death.
OGDEN — The man who was shot and killed while on the porch swing of an Ogden home in September has been identified as 45-year-old Vincent Tijerina.
Two men face criminal charges in connection with the killing on Sept. 21 — Johnathon Geno Lemus, 31, and Joshua James Nava, 29. Lemus is charged with murder.
A civil case against Tijerina — involving the same house he was shot in front of at 2834 Childs Ave. — was resolved just weeks before he was killed.
Tijerina was living with his 75-year-old father, who owned the home, and he was responsible for paying the water bill. Tijerina presented his father with a document to sign, claiming it "would only transfer the water bill into (Tijerina's) name," according to the complaint.
His father, who is "a native Spanish speaker, does not speak English well, and is unable to read in either Spanish or English," did not know the document was really a quitclaim deed that transferred half the property interest of the house to Tijerina, the complaint alleges.
Two Weber County employees working in the recorder's office "expressed concerns about what was happening," court documents show, but Tijerina was accused of falsely representing his father "was about to sell the home to someone for 'next to nothing.'"
After the transfer, Tijerina was said to have lived in the house, "and even ousted (his father) from the home from a time," renting it to a third party "for an unknown amount," and not sharing any proceeds with his father, court documents claim.
On Sept. 5, just weeks before Tijerina was killed, a judge found him in a "position of trust/undue influence ... engaged in deception which was intended to either temporarily or permanently deprive (Tijerina's father) of a half-interest in the home," according to the judgment.
A transfer of the property back to Tijerina's father was authorized without Tijerina because of his "unavailability or lack of cooperation," the judgment says. Tijerina was ordered to pay attorney fees and interest, and his father was told he could remove Tijerina from the property for trespassing if so desired.
No information has been released regarding the motive behind Tijerina's death.
