BRIGHTON —A man arrested in connection with an Adams County triple homicide on Wednesday waddled into a court hearing on Friday morning in shackles, glaring at the gallery and muttering to himself.
Gabriel Flores, 41, clad in a blue jumpsuit and orange flip flops, did not have an attorney during his first appearance after the shooting that left three men dead.
“I have nothing,” he said, surrounded by several sheriff’s deputies, when the judge asked if he could afford an attorney.
Flores is being held without bond at the county jail on suspicion of first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder. The sheriff’s office is still searching for Furmen Lee Leyba, 30, in connection with the shooting.
Authorities say Leyba “should be considered dangerous.”
Adams County District Attorney Dave Young represented the prosecution on Friday but declined to talk about the case after the hearing. He has until Tuesday to file charges.
“I wasn’t read my rights, nothing,” Flores told the judge, speaking in a low, raspy voice. “Nobody told me what my charges are.”
The warrantless affidavit in the case has been sealed.
Flores was arrested after a high-speed chase in Jefferson County on Wednesday evening that began in Golden, went through Morrison and ended just off C-470.
Flores has been arrested nearly two dozen times since 1991 on charges including assault, domestic violence and robbery, Colorado Bureau of Investigation records show.
Leyba has been arrested about 25 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.
Authorities found three male shooting victims, whose ages were not released, dead in a house on Cragmore Street in an unincorporated part of the county about 7:20 a.m. on Wednesday 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.
The Adams County Coroner’s Office declined to say if autopsies had been completed on the victims or when they would be identified.
The Adams County Sheriff’s Office asks anyone with information on the case to call a tip line at 720- 322-1313.
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