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Murder of Ted Price

31-year-old Aaron Gunches went to his girlfriend in Mesa, Arizona, place on November 14th, 2002.

Once at the home, he saw that his girlfriends had an altercation with her ex-husband, Ted Price, resulting in Price being struck with a phone and knocked to the ground.

Gunches, his girl, and her roommates put Price in Gunches car. Later, Gunches and a friend took Price out to the desert. When Price exited the vehicle, he was fatally shot.

Gunchess was pulled over in January 2003 and shot an officer twice. The officer survived, and Gunches was arrested the next day.

Legal Proceedings

He pleaded guilty to Price’s Murder and was sentenced to death.

As the years passed, he wrote letters and filed requests attempting to accelerate his death date.

He was supposed to get sent packing on April 6th, 2023, but it didn’t happen.

In early 2025, Arizona announced that the 53-year-old will get the needle on March 19th, 2025.

Execution of Aaron Gunches

According to AZMirror, the night before his death date, Gunches devoured a final meal of a double western burger, spicy gyros, onion rings, and baklava, then he was transferred to the Arizona State Prison Complex in Florence. The next day, he was marched to the death chamber at 10:02 am and strapped to the gurney. As witnesses watched, he was given the chance to make a final statement, but he declined.

He was injected with a lethal cocktail of drugs and pronounced dead at 10:33 am.