Aurora police have booked a man on suspicion of first-degree murder after a shooting and car crash Tuesday night.
Ashton Dane Curtis Steel, 27, was questioned by police after he drove past the area where a man was found dead in a car. He is being held without bail in the Arapahoe County jail.
Witnesses told police that the car Steel was riding in had been involved in a shooting just before the crash.
Police were called by a number of residents near East Jewell Avenue and South Sable Boulevard about 8:50 p.m. Tuesday. When officers arrived, they found a red Chevrolet Tahoe that had crashed onto the lawn of a condo complex with a dead man inside.
The victim’s identity has not been released, but police described him as a 27-year-old black man. The man, who police speculated was shot after a drug deal went bad, suffered gunshot wounds as well as crash injuries.
Residents said they heard a number of what sounded like gunshots before the Tahoe came to a stop. During the interviews, a car cruised by that residents said was the one involved in the gunfire. Police stopped the car and questioned the occupants, which led to Steel’s arrest.
