The Adam’s County Sheriff’s Office Detective Division has identified 21-year-old Jesse Anthony Torres as the suspect in the Halloween drive-by shooting that took the life of a teenage boy.
In the evening of Oct. 31, 2007, sixteen-year-old Jose Aranda, a ninth-grader at Hidden Lake High School, was riding his bike home from a local grocery store in the area of 76th Avenue and Turner Drive, when he was struck by a bullet.
Aranda, who was riding on the back of a bicycle with another teenage boy, was hit by a bullet from, what witnesses said, was a black truck that raced down the street and sped from the shooting.
The teenager steering the bike was not hit by gunfire.
The Adams County Sheriff’s office found Aranda with a gunshot wound, and he later died after arriving at an area hospital.
Aranda’s name was not released by officials at the time but his name was released by his family.
The Adams County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s assistance in finding Torres.
He is described as a Hispanic male, 5’6″, 170 pounds, with brown eyes, and short cropped brown hair. Torres also has pock marks on his face.
Torres is considered armed and dangerous, and police ask that the public not attempt to contact him.
Anyone with information on torres’ whereabouts is asked to call the Adams County Sheriff’s Office at (720)-322-1313.
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