Charges have been filed against three men in the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old on July 11.
The shooting was the first of three that week in northeast Denver, but officials now believe that this shooting was not releated to the other two.
Lynn Kimbrough, spokeswoman for the Denver District Attorney’s office, said that Montea Davis and the three men charged were attempting to break into a home on the 2900 block of Eudora Street.
As they were outside the home, Desean Henley, 20 unintentionally shot Davis, Kimbrough said.
Davis was taken by a private party to University of Colorado Hospital, where he later died, said Sonny Jackson, a Denver police spokesman.
Reports at the time indicated the shooting had taken place outside a liquor store near 29th and Fairfax. Police said that address was not correct.
Henley was charged with one count of manslaughter and four counts of attempted aggravated robbery, among other charges. The charges prompted a warrant on which he was arrested on Monday in Chicago. Henley is still in custody there, and no court date has not been set in Denver.
The other men involved, David Lovelace, 19, and Steven Marquez, 32, are also charged with four counts of attempted aggravated robbery, and conspiracy to commit first-degree burglary.
Lovelace and Marquez are currently in custody in Denver.
A day after the shooting that killed Davis, 21-year-old Katsina Lynnea Roybal, was killed on a porch on East 36th Avenue near High Street.
Witnesses told police two or possibly three men approached Roybal and the man with her just before gunfire erupted about 10 p.m.. The man, who has not been named by police, was shot in the leg but ran away.
In January, Roybal pleaded guilty in a fire that gutted the Holly Square Shopping Center two years ago and was sentenced to eight years of probation.
Prosecutors said the strip mall was a hangout for the Bloods gang, burned down in retaliation for the murder of Crips leader Michael Asberry the day before.
Two days later, on July 14 there was a drive-by assault and police chase that left four officers injured and another man wounded.
Kimbrough said “it is pretty clear” that there is no connection of those shootings to the one that left Davis dead on July 11.
No arrests have been made in the latter two cases, and Jackson said no new details are being released.
