A Fort Collins man hit by a automobile on Interstate 25 close to Mead whereas fleeing from police earlier this month was arrested on suspicion of first-degree homicide within the capturing dying and burning of a Greeley resident.
Isaac Valdez-Salvador, 32, was recognized as a suspect after the Poudre Canyon Volunteer Fireplace Division discovered the physique of “an clearly deceased individual” on hearth beneath a bridge on the Stevens Gulch picnic space off of Colorado 14 within the early hours of April 11, based on the Larimer County Sheriff’s Workplace.
The person’s physique was later recognized as Gerardo Hernandez Lucio, 49, and the coroner’s workplace dominated his dying a murder from a gunshot wound to the pinnacle.
Valdez-Salvador was recognized as a suspect by extra data and forensic proof, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned in a information launch Wednesday.
Investigators imagine Valdez-Salvador and a second suspect, 37-year-old Juana Espino of Evans, knew Lucio and killed him a number of days earlier than setting his physique on hearth, based on the company.
Larimer County sheriff’s deputies tried to contact Valdez-Salvador in Loveland on April 14, however he sped away at over 100 mph, passing autos on the shoulder and hitting visitors cones in development areas as he fled.
He stopped on I-25 close to Mead due to a flat tire, acquired out of the automobile with a gun and ran throughout the freeway. After leaping the median, he was hit by a northbound automobile and critically injured.
Valdez-Salvador is recovering at a hospital and might be booked into the Weld County Jail on suspicion of first-degree homicide, conspiracy to commit first-degree homicide, tampering with a physique, motorized vehicle theft, eluding and tampering with proof, all felonies, based on the sheriff’s workplace.
Espino was arrested Friday on suspicion of first-degree homicide, conspiracy, tampering with proof and a weapons cost, all felonies.
The investigation is ongoing and anybody with details about the case can contact Investigator Ryan Gebhardt at 970-498-5586.
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