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BOULDER, Colo.—Prosecutors won’t seek the death penalty against a man accused of killing a University of Colorado student more than 10 years ago.
Diego Olmos-Alcalde is suspected of sexually assaulting and beating Susannah Chase in an alley in 1997. She died the next day.
She was 23 years old and from Stamford, Conn.
Boulder District Attorney Mary Lacy disclosed her decision Thursday.
Family members say they didn’t ask Lacy to pursue capital punishment but also didn’t ask her to rule it out.
No one has been sentenced to death in Boulder County.
Olmos-Alcalde, a native of Chile, was linked to the case through DNA evidence and arrested in January. He denies any knowledge of Chase’s death.
