An Arapahoe County grand jury will investigate the murder of Andrew Graham, a University of Colorado engineering school graduate found dead in the front yard of a Centennial home on Nov. 6, 2009.
The grand jury is expected to convene Jan. 20, Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson said Friday.
Because he expects to testify before the grand jury, Robinson said he could not discuss any evidence his investigators have uncovered in the case.The grand jury involvement was reported by CBS4.
Graham, 23, left home about 4:30 p.m. on Nov. 5, 2009, taking a light-rail train from the Dry Creek station to Denver. From there, he caught a bus to Boulder, where he rented a house. Then he ate dinner in Boulder and headed home.
Graham was last seen alive on a security camera at the light-rail station at County Line Road and Interstate 25 at 11:40 p.m. the night before his body was found.
He was shot once by a bullet that penetrated his chest and abdomen. His money and wallet were accounted for, and his satchel was found nearly three blocks away with its contents undisturbed.
According to court papers obtained by 9News, alleged gang member Clarissa Lockhart said she and four other gang members followed Graham after he got off the light rail. She said a second gang member then spoke to Graham, and a third gang member, whom she identified by the street name of “Baby Low,” then shot and killed Graham.
Lockhart was one of a number of suspected gang members who allegedly targeted white and Latino men in Lower Downtown Denver between July 17 and Sept. 20, 2009, according to her arrest affidavit. She pleaded guilty to attempted robbery in a Sept. 4, 2009, incident and received a four-year prison term.
Howard Pankratz: 303-954-1939 or hpankratz@denverpost.com
This article has been corrected in this online archive. Originally, due to an editing error, the
incorrect date on which murder victim Andrew Graham left his home
to look at a rental home in Boulder was wrong. He left the afternoon of Nov.
5, 2009, and his body was found early the next morning.
