An man accused of terrorizing an Edgewater neighborhood with hours of random gunfire last year this morning was sentenced to 16 years in prison.
Lupo Wolf Solazzo, 27, who fired more than 350 rounds from a semi-automatic pistol in the early morning hours of April 4, 2011, last month pleaded guilty to two felony counts of attempted first-degree assault — extreme indifference, according to a Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office media release.
No one was injured in the early morning barrage, in which Solazzo had police and neighbors ducking for cover as he kept them at bay for hours.
More than 100 police officers from Lakewood, Wheat Ridge, Denver, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, and the Colorado State Patrol responded to the incident. SWAT officers from the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, the Arvada Police Department and the Denver Police Department brought the incident to an end, without injury to Solazzo or any of his family members.
Solazzo had fired the gun from an Edgewater home, near West 20th Avenue and Sheridan Boulevard, he shared with his mother, a sister, and three small children. They were all home at the time of the incident. Police did not return Solazzo’s gun fire.
Solazzo told investigators he had been drinking at a friend’s house earlier in the evening, according to the release, where he was attacked “by a guy who wanted money for drugs.”
When Solazzo got home he got a 9mm pistol out of a closet “to protect himself” and began firing out of a bedroom window.
Prosecutors said it was miraculous that no one was hit by the gunfire.
Kieran Nicholson: 303-954-1822 or knicholson@denverpost.com
