A 28-year-old Federal Heights man has been identified as the person fatally shot by Westminster police early Wednesday.
Albert LeRoy Lucero, 28, died of multiple gunshot wounds inside a duplex in the 7100 block of Hooker Street about 5 a.m., said Adams County Coroner James Hibbard.
Police did not release any new details Thursday about the three-hour pursuit of a stolen-car suspect that led to Lucero’s death.
Lucero had prior domestic-violence and theft convictions.
Police wouldn’t say whether Lucero is the same person who fled from officers in a stolen GMC Yukon starting about 1 a.m. at West 72nd Avenue and Federal Boulevard.
Just before 3 a.m., the driver crashed through police cars in a Hamburger Stand restaurant parking lot under a hail of gunfire. The driver ditched the sport utility vehicle about 2 miles away in Arvada about 3:10 a.m., Westminster police investigator Wayne Read said previously.
“I heard a boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,” said Elena Chavez, 50, who lives across the street from where Lucero was killed.
The restaurant where the gunshots were fired is just around the corner.
“I jumped out of bed,” Chavez said. “I saw three cop cars streaming by.”
Two hours later, officers entered the Hooker Street duplex apartment and shot Lucero after he presented what police called “a deadly threat.”
Read said he could not disclose what that threat was or whether the man had a weapon.
Chavez said she heard two more shots about 5 a.m. When she looked out her window across the street, she saw numerous police officers entering the apartment with guns drawn.
Soon, the street in front of her house was jammed with 11 patrol cars.
Investigators have not said whether they are looking for others involved in the Yukon theft or the chase.
According to neighbors, police soon arrested two women who had been in the same apartment at the duplex where the shooting happened.
One of the two was Andrea Evig, 34, who is being held at the Adams County Detention Facility on a five-year community-corrections sentence out of Denver for theft of more than $15,000, according to jail records.
