A defendant has been sentenced to life in jail for a taking pictures loss of life at a Lakewood motel on West Colfax Avenue.
Julian Joel Rivera, 36, was sentenced Friday in Jefferson County District Courtroom for the homicide of 29-year-old Geronimo Alvarado, based on a DA’s workplace information launch. Rivera was convicted by a jury of first-degree homicide on March 14 after a five-day trial.
“We thank the Lakewood Police Division for his or her investigation and the Jefferson County jury for guaranteeing justice was served on this case,” mentioned Assistant District Lawyer Jennifer Rhoads, within the launch. “Mr. Rivera will spend the remainder of his life in jail, and we hope his sentence brings some sense of closure to Mr. Alvarado’s household.”
About 2:45 a.m. on Jan. 26, 2021, Lakewood police responded to the Blue Sky Motel, now defunct, on a taking pictures. The sufferer, Alvarado, was shot a number of instances and died on the scene. Surveillance video confirmed a person, Rivera, get out of a white GMC SUV, knock on the sufferer’s resort room door, and spend only some seconds within the room earlier than Alvarado’s taking pictures, the discharge mentioned.
Rivera is a defendant in a Denver homicide case, a taking pictures, and a Commerce Metropolis tried homicide case, additionally a taking pictures. Each these shootings occurred on the identical day as Alvarado’s taking pictures, based on prosecutors. Rivera has pleaded not responsible in each ongoing instances.
His subsequent court docket look in Denver is scheduled Thursday; and in Commerce Metropolis on Could 31.
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