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The Orange-Osceola State Attorney\u2019s Office on Tuesday dropped a murder charge against a suspect who fatally shot a man outside a nightclub south of downtown Orlando earlier this year after admitting they could not prove it wasn\u2019t in self-defense.<\/p>\n

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Jean Borja Gil De La Madr, 37, was charged with second-degree murder for the early morning Feb. 22 killing of 33-year-old Julien Cruz, the result of a physical altercation outside Savoy Orlando.<\/p>\n

According to the Orlando Police Department, once the argument turned physical, Borja Gil De La Madr went to his car and returned with a gun, shot Cruz and fled the scene only to be found nearby. He turned himself in at the Orange County Jail that same day.<\/p>\n

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But the case against Borja Gil De La Madr turned problematic a week later, when an Orange County judge on March 2 issued a $75,000 bond for his release. In court, his lawyers argued there was \u201csignificant evidence of self-defense,\u201d and the judge ruled prosecutors did not make a convincing case to keep him behind bars.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the State Attorney\u2019s Office issued a notice that the case was being dropped, citing that it could not prove the \u201cuse of force was not justified beyond a reasonable doubt.\u201d<\/p>\n

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