Tanner Flores, the teen accused of gunning down his ex-girlfriend after she broke up with him, will be transferred from Mesa County, where he was arrested, to Larimer County, where the killing took place, to await trial.
Flores, 18, faces charges of first-degree murder and second-degree kidnapping for the death of Ashley Doolittle. He has twice in the head, cleaning her body and driving the corpse from Larimer County to the Western Slope town of Collbran.
He is being held in Mesa County without bond. On Wednesday, Mesa County District Court Judge David Arnold Bottger, dismissed the case so it could be prosecuted in Larimer County.
Flores is accused of killing Doolittle, 18, near Carter Lake, in unincorporated Larimer County. last Friday after his family advised an investigator that Flores’ truck was parked in the driveway of his deceased grandfather’s home.
Doolittle was “loving and compassionate,” Ann Marie Doolittle, her mother said Wednesday. “She had her future ahead of her.”
A funeral Mass for Doolittle will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Parish, 1730 W. 12th St., Loveland, followed by burial in Greenlawn Cemetery in Berthoud.
A viewing will be held from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, at Viegut Funeral Home, 1616 N. Lincoln Ave., in Loveland.
