Sol Tribe Custom Tattoo and Body Piercing closed its doors for the final time Monday, two-and-a-half years after the Denver shop’s owner and a manager were killed in a shocking shooting spree.
For 15 years, the tattoo shop, located at 56 Broadway, created space for women and non-binary and LGBTQ people in a male-dominated industry.
“Itap with a very heavy heart that the staff of Sol Tribe say final goodbyes to the studio today suddenly,” “We thought we had another month of sorting out details before the final closing of Sol Tribe, but that wasn’t the case. We are completely devastated.”
The sudden closure comes more than two years after the loss of Sol Tribe’s owner, Alicia Cardenas, and jewelry manager, Alyssa Gunn Maldonado. Both died in the shop at the hands of a gunman who killed five and injured two in a shooting spree in Denver and Lakewood on Dec. 27, 2021.
“Y’all have supported us through figurative hell, during our hardest moments and we will never forget that,” the shop’s Instagram post reads. “We are stunned by this news and we are heart broken.”
Sol Tribe’s owners couldn’t be reached by The Denver Post on Tuesday for comment.
Next week, the season finale of the Investigation Discovery television series will explore the 2021 shooting and how the killer’s “devotion to an online community of misogyny led him down a violent path,” according to the network.
The episode, “Control Alt Delete,” airs on Investigation Discovery and streams on Max at 7 p.m. Monday.
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