A 26-year-old Colorado Springs woman was killed inside her home in the presence of four children.
Pola Yesenia Valenzuela was strangled during a “domestic disturbance” at about 9 p.m. Wednesday in her apartment in the 4800 block of Astrozon Blvd.
Anselmo Bonilla Barraza, 29, who lived with Valenzuela and four children at the home, has been arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder, police said.
The children — ages 9, 7, 6 and 9 months — were not physically harmed, police said. They are now with their maternal grandmother.
Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call police at 719-444-7000 or Crime Stoppers at 719-634-STOP.
Kieran Nicholson: 303-954-1822 or knicholson@denverpost.com
This article has been corrected in this online archive. Originally, it indicated that the victim was both strangled and shot. She was, in fact, only strangled.
