CASTLE ROCK — Both suspects charged in a lengthy crime spree in Douglas County this summer confessed to police and one admitted shooting at a sheriff’s deputy while the other drove, according to testimony Thursday.
Brandin Kreuzer, the son of a Denver police officer, told law enforcement officials that he fired at sheriff’s deputies with “a big gun” during a police chase after he and Taylor Moudy, both 19, stole a car June 28 in Douglas County.
The men have been charged with more than 120 felony counts each, including numerous burglary and theft charges and attempted first-degree murder. Deputy Todd Tucker was wounded.
“Both of them indicated it was kind of fun. Both of them indicated it was for the rush,” testified Douglas County sheriff’s investigator Jason Weaver.
The crime spree began in May and ended in late June. The pair are accused of stealing numerous vehicles, breaking into houses and garages, stealing electronics and checkbooks, and swiping semiautomatic guns and rifles from area businesses, Weaver said.
Prosecutors played a tape of police radio communications the night of the chase. While Tucker was in pursuit, one person fired from the broken-out window of a stolen car. Tucker told dispatchers:
“I’ve been hit. I have blood coming down my arm, and I don’t know where it’s coming from. I have bullet holes all over my car.”
The two men evaded police and ran into the forest. But evidence, which could include DNA, led police to Moudy and then Kreuzer. They were arrested last month.
