Authorities in Adams County have arrested a man in connection with a triple homicide on Wednesday, and another suspect remains at large.
Authorities said the victims were all male but declined to release their names or ages.
Gabriel Flores, 41, is being held without bond at the county jail on suspicion of first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder. Flores has been arrested 21 times since 1991 on charges including assault, domestic violence and robbery, Colorado Bureau of Investigation records show.
The county sheriff’s office is searching for Furmen Lee Leyba, 30, who “should be considered dangerous” though it is unknown if he is armed, officials say.
Leyba has been arrested 26 times throughout the metro area since 2002 on charges including aggravated auto theft, domestic violence and drug and weapons offenses, according to CBI records. He was last arrested in late September on a slew of charges involving a weapon.
Flores was arrested after a high-speed chase in Jefferson County on Wednesday. The chase started in Golden, went through Morrison and ended just off C-470.
A spokesman for the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said Flores was driving a black Jeep Wrangler — which authorities had been seeking in connection with the shooting.
The sheriff’s office says an unidentified woman, who was a passenger in the Jeep, was also arrested after the chase and turned over to authorities in Adams County.
According to reports, the chase Wednesday afternoon started on Sixth Avenue, just outside Golden, when Flores started driving the wrong way in the eastbound lanes.
Authorities found the three shooting victims in a house on Cragmore Street in an unincorporated part of the county about 7:20 a.m. after a call came in from a “hysterical female who said there was a disturbance at the home and hung up immediately,” Cmdr. Terrance O’Neill said.
Officials immediately said they had identified a person of interest in the slayings, who later was identified as Flores.
O’Neill said the investigation will be a “long, meticulous search.”
The relationship between the three victims is not known, O’Neill said.
“I just heard some people arguing,” said Sheri Catalina, who was nearby before the killings. “A man and a woman were arguing outside.”
Broadway and surrounding streets were closed for hours.
“There are some witnesses that are being interviewed,” O’Neill said.
Investigators walked shoulder to shoulder for several blocks along Cragmore Street as they scoured the area for evidence.
The Adams County Sheriff’s Office asks anyone with information on the case to call a tip line at 720- 322-1313.