MONTE VISTA — At the Monte Vista Police Department, Chief Richard Needham and his detectives don’t often investigate homicides around the small south western Colorado farming community, but they are now.
Fifty-four-year-old John Salazar and his girlfriend, 29-year-old Sara Beasley, were shot and killed at their home Monday morning.
Beasley died inside the house, Salazar on the front lawn, and Beasley’s three young boys were inside the home at the time of the shootings.
Police say there are few clues in the case, with the only real description of the suspect coming from the oldest boy. He is a 9-year-old who told police the shooter was an overweight person around 5 feet 7 inches tall, dressed in black and wearing a black ski mask.
Some think the crime was motivated by drugs given the home was sprayed with graffiti reading: “My drugs R not free.”
Read the rest of this report and watch a video of the story at
