A teenager has been arrested as a suspect in a fatal shooting on Interstate 70 in Denver.
On Thursday night, Denver and Westminster police took the 17-year-old suspect into custody, according to a Denver police news release. He is being held for investigation of first-degree murder.
About 11 p.m. July 31, 31-year-old Kevin Piaskowski was shot by a gunman in a silver truck as he was driving in the westbound lanes of I-70 near the Northfield-Quebec exit.
PRESS RELEASE: Denver Police Arrest Suspect in Fatal I-70 Shooting.
— Denver Police Dept. (@DenverPolice)
“At this time, it appears that the victim … and suspect were unknown to each other and that the shooting occurred after the suspect was seen driving a stolen Dodge Ram aggressively on the highway,” police said on Friday.
Immediately after the shooting, the suspect was in a crash involving multiple vehicles, including a stolen white Hyundai Santa Fe, police said. People in the Hyundai fled on foot, and investigators are trying to determine whether they were connected to the shooting suspect, who had fled on foot. Police did not release his name because he is a juvenile.
