Prosecutors allege that Francisco Javier Escobedo killed 19-year-old Alize Gonzalez during an argument over drugs in the early morning hours of Nov. 10, then callously dumped her body alongside a road in Kent.

The King County Prosecutor on Tuesday charged the 30-year-old Auburn man with second-degree murder. Arraignment is at 9 a.m., Monday, Nov. 30 in Courtroom GA at the Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent.

Bail is $2 million.

“Given that the defendant killed a young woman and dumped her body on the side of the road during a drug-fueled encounter, the amount of bail requested is appropriate,” prosecutor Jessica Berliner told the court.

Here is what happened, based on eyewitness accounts contained in the Determination for Certification of Probable Cause filed by the Auburn Police Department on Nov. 17.

Gonzalez, Escobedo and two others had spent the day and night of Nov. 9 consuming illegal drugs in Escobedo’s apartment at 3312 I St. NE, according to the account.

At about 2 a.m., Escobedo and Gonzalez got into an argument, she calling him names and cursing at him for not having provided more drugs, according to what the two other people present later told police.

According to the police account, at one point Gonzalez punched Escobedo in the face, but the blow did not appear to have done any harm because of the difference in size and weight between the two, he outweighing her by more than 100 pounds.

At one point, according to what those present told police, Escobedo pulled a handgun from his pants pocket, pushed Gonzalez away, pointed the gun at her and, within a foot of her head, shot her in the neck. According to the witnesses, Gonzalez immediately fell down against the wall in the corner, where she appeared to be dead.

One of the witnesses later confirmed that Gonzalez had no weapon in her hand that would have caused Escobedo to fear for his safety.

(According to what Escobedo himself later told police, given Gonzalez small size, he was not frightened of her and mocked her when she punched him in the head.)

One of the witnesses told police that after firing, Escobedo picked up the spent casing and commented that he was going to leave to “get rid of the gun,” at which point the witnesses fled the apartment.

According to the police account, throughout the preceding weekend, Escobedo had displayed the gun while, “bragging that he carries it all the time because rival gang and drug cartel members want to kill him,” according to the police account.

About 4 p.m. Nov. 10, according to the police account, a woman’s body was found alongside a road in Kent. Following up on what they had learned, police detectives served a search warrant on Escobedo’s apartment. The search turned up blood on the carpet in the bedroom near the corner of the room, a dent near the bottom of the wall above the blood stain, a suspected bullet hole through the window, and a bag containing Gonzalez identity a few feet away from the corner.

Police arrested Escobedo in Kent on Nov. 11 just as he was starting work. According to the police account, Escobedo subsequently changed his story about what had happened several times. Eventually, however, according to the account, he admitted to returning to the apartment and placing Gonzalez body in a blanket and searching for a spot to dump the body along the road in Kent.

Escobedo admitted to being a convicted felon in California, and so forbidden from being in possession of a firearm, according to the police account.

“In this case,” Berliner told the court in asking for the high bail, “the defendant admittedly used methamphetamines and then began to argue with the 19-year-old victim. Despite being prohibited from possessing a firearm at all, he produced a loaded gun during the argument and eventually shot her in the neck. Rather than call for help, the defendant first took steps to conceal evidence of his crime; namely, the gun. He then loaded the victim into the trunk of his car and unceremoniously deposited her on the side of the road without any means for officers to identify her or to notify her family that she had been killed. The defendant’s cold-blooded behavior belies any claim of accident. “