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OGDEN — An Ogden man accepted a deal with prosecutors and pleaded guilty to manslaughter in a shooting death last year.
Isaac Daniel Duran, 24, pleaded guilty last week to manslaughter, a second-degree felony, in the shooting death of 34-year-old Steven Ferguson. Duran also admitted to a reduced charge of possession of a dangerous weapon by a restricted person, a second-degree felony, and two counts of discharge of a firearm, third-degree felonies.
Duran was originally charged with first-degree felony murder.
In exchange for Duran's plea, prosecutors will recommend that sentences in the case run concurrently to each other, as well as to a sentence in a separate case, according to court documents. Duran also pleaded guilty last week to failure to stop at command of police, a third-degree felony.
Sentencing in both cases has been set for April 21.
Two other cases — one alleging felony charges of aggravated robbery and aggravated assault, and the other being misdemeanors for failure to stop at command of law enforcement and possession of drug paraphernalia — were dismissed in the deal.
Duran was arrested in September, seven months after the slaying.
Ogden man charged with murder in February shooting case
An Ogden man has been charged with murder in a February shooting that left another Ogden man dead in the middle of a street.Police responding to reports of shots fired on Feb. 23, 2015, found Ferguson's body in the street next to his car on the 3500 block of Jefferson Avenue.
Surveillance cameras across the street captured the shooting, according to court documents. The footage shows Ferguson arriving at a home at 3552 Jefferson Ave. in has car at 6:43 p.m., then later running back toward his car as someone chased him, firing a gun.
Duran was treated at an area hospital that night, bleeding from his abdomen, according to court documents. He would not tell hospital staff how he sustained the injury.
An abandoned handgun and a trail of blood, later identified as Duran's, was found leading from the scene of the shooting to his nearby home, 3476 Adams Ave. Police serving a search warrant on the home located a box of ammunition in Duran's home that matches bullets in the recovered revolver, charges state.
