Overview
- Yeanbraiker Yriarte-Valera, 20, is being held at the Wyandotte County Detention Center in Kansas on a Denver homicide warrant after being booked Friday.
- Denver police say he fled Colorado following the Feb. 14 shooting and was located and arrested in Kansas City, Kansas.
- Denver court records list first-degree murder, four counts of attempted first-degree murder, four counts of first-degree assault, and a violent-crime sentence enhancer under investigation.
- Officers responded around 5:15 a.m. to the 1500 block of West Maple Avenue in Valverde, where a man was found dead and a woman had been shot in the ankle and taken to a hospital.
- Investigators say a party fight led to gunfire by at least two people, that Yriarte-Valera is believed to have fired the fatal shot, the second suspect has not been identified, and tips are requested at 720-913-7867.