The daddy of a 14-year-old boy charged with homicide within the July killing of a Denver bar bouncer was arrested Friday and accused of driving his son to Wyoming to cover out after the killing, police information present.
Steven Marquez, 46, was held for investigation on the felony prices of being an adjunct to against the law and trying to affect a public servant, in accordance with on-line information with Denver County Court docket.
Denver police allege he helped his son keep away from arrest and lied to investigators following the July 10 deadly capturing on the Federales Denver bar at twenty ninth and Larimer streets within the River North Arts District, in accordance with an affidavit filed in opposition to him.
Marquez’s son, who JHB just isn’t naming as a result of he’s a juvenile, is charged with first-degree homicide within the killing of 49-year-old William “Todd” Kidd, a bouncer on the bar.
Kidd was intervening in a disturbance when he was shot, police have stated. He died two days in a while July 12.
Marquez’s son, who turned 15 on Monday, was arrested on July 16 in Casper, Wyoming. He’d shaved his head “in an obvious effort to disguise” himself, in accordance with the affidavit.
Marquez’s telephone information present he drove to Wyoming on July 14 and spent about an hour close to Casper earlier than driving again to Denver, in accordance with the nine-page affidavit, which police closely redacted. A relative of Marquez’s lives within the space, police stated.
Marquez instructed police that his son would flip himself in however not till the boy spoke with journalists, as a result of there was video of the killing that “the world must see,” in accordance with the affidavit. Neither he nor his son confirmed as much as an organized assembly with police to show his son in on July 13, in accordance with the affidavit.
Marquez on Wednesday instructed The Submit he’d seen a video that exhibits his son acted in self-defense in the course of the capturing. He believes the fees in opposition to him are an try by police to retaliate over that video, and stated that he’d deliberate on serving to his son flip himself in after the killing. He couldn’t instantly present the video to The Submit.
“The one factor I’m responsible of, in the event that they need to say I’m responsible of something, is being a dad,” Marquez stated. “I don’t know what’s going on. However my intention was to show my son in.”
Marquez was arrested Friday and launched Sunday on $2,000 bail, courtroom information present. The 2 prices he was arrested on are low-level felonies. He’s subsequent due in courtroom Oct. 14. His son is scheduled seem in courtroom Oct. 15.
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