Two people were killed after a shooting and car chase through south Denver on Sunday, according to the Denver Police Department.
Officers responded to a shooting near West Arkansas Avenue and South Knox Court in Denver’s Mar Lee neighborhood Sunday afternoon, Denver police said in a post on X.
The shooting victim — identified by the Denver Office of the Medical Examiner Friday as 26-year-old Efrain Enrique Palacio Delgado — was pronounced dead.
Police saw a man suspected in the shooting driving away from the scene and followed him to the area of South University Boulevard and Cherry Hills Farm Drive in the Cherry Hills neighborhood.
The man — 30-year-old Aldo Villa-Ceballos, according to coroner officials — crashed twice, hitting one vehicle, and was found dead in his vehicle as a result of suicide, police said.
Three people who were in the vehicle the man crashed into were not injured.
This is a developing story and may be updated.
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