FOUR TEENS ACCUSED IN DEATH OF 17- YEAR- OLD

JEFFERSON COUNTY » Four teens accused of fatally shooting a

17- year- old in Wheat Ridge have been charged with firstdegree murder, according to the Jefferson County district attorney’s office.

The four were arrested this month in connection with the killing of Nimijah Pimentel on April 13 in Panorama Park, months after another 17- yearold was arrested and charged in the case. Wheat Ridge police found Pimentel lying on the ground with a gunshot wound near 33rd Avenue and Chase Street, where he was pronounced dead, according to the district attorney’s office.

Sincere Trujillo, 18, and Esteban Lucero, 19, were charged with 14 counts, including firstdegree murder, according to the district attorney’s office. Two juveniles also were arrested and charged. They will not be named publicly unless they are later charged as adults.

Their co- defendant, 17- yearold Julian Santos Campos, was arrested April 13 and charged as an adult also with 14 counts, including first- degree murder.

All are being held without bail.

Man killed by police is identified.

A man killed Saturday by Denver police and Adams County sheriff’s deputies has been identified as Christopher Escobedo, 33, by the Denver medical examiner.

Escobedo was shot to death just after midnight in the 1500 block of Meade Street. He died of gunshot wounds, according to a news release from the medical examiner’s office.

Escobedo was shot after a car chase that started in Adams County. Sheriff’s deputies tried to stop the driver for a traffic violation at the corner of 58th Avenue and Broadway. He drove into Denver and opened fire on the pursuing officers, Denver police division chief Ron Thomas said during a Saturday news conference.

Denver police officers joined the chase and attempted to stop the car. Escobedo and a female passenger stopped on Meade Street and ran into a backyard. Escobedo was holding a gun and did not drop it officers told him to, Thomas said.

Three Adams County deputies and two Denver police officers opened fire. The woman was not hurt.

Escobedo was the third person to be shot by Denver police in the past week.

So far this year, Denver police have killed nine people. Statewide, Colorado law enforcement officers have wounded or killed people in 46 incidents.