Golden police were investigating the city’s first suspected homicide case in almost 13 years, after they found a man shot to death in his home this morning.
A woman also was found wounded in the home near Colorado 58 and Boyd Street, and she is suspected of being the shooter.
No names have been released, police said.
Police responded to a call from an unnamed person and arrived at the home about 10:40 a.m. When officers forced open the door, they found the man dead and the woman injured from a gunshot.
The last homicide investigation in Golden was in April 1996. Ronnie Kay Thurlow, 24, at the time, of Idaho Springs, was initially charged with second-degree murder of her 29-year-old boyfriend, Patrick J. Morey Jr., on West Colfax Avenue.
She later pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay 10 percent of her future income to support Morey’s son.
Prosecutors said the couple had returned on a casino shuttle bus from Blackhawk before Thurlow ran over Morey and dragged him from a parking lot for more than a quarter of a mile.
