Man arrested after body found in his apartment
Suspect tells police 2 had been drinking
A Wednesday night out at a Northeast Heights tavern turned deadly when two men who had been drinking together went back to an apartment and one of them allegedly stabbed the other to death.
Jarek Lovesee, 28, was arrested Thursday morning and charged with murder after police found a man’s body at Lovesee’s apartment near Comanche and Juan Tabo.
Police say Alex Lovesee called police around 2 a.m. saying his son, Jarek Lovesee, had a body in his apartment.
When officers arrived at the Sungate Apartments at 10800 Comanche NE, they found Jarek Lovesee shirtless with blood on his pants and scratches on his body, according to the criminal complaint filed against him in Metropolitan Court.
They immediately detained
him.
Police then went into Jarek Lovesee’s apartment and found a dead man in a pool of blood with a cut across his neck, according to the complaint.
Jarek Lovesee told police in an interview that he went to the Dragon Horn Tavern around 7 p.m. Wednesday with some friends. A man named Larry, who Jarek Lovesee had met a few days earlier at the same bar, started hanging out with them. Larry’s last name wasn’t included in the complaint.
When Jarek Lovesee was ready to leave, Larry asked him if he could sleep on his couch. Jarek Lovesee said he agreed and Larry drove them to Jarek Lovesee’s apartment.
Once they were there, Jarek Lovesee told police that Larry said he was going to leave the apartment to go kill some people. Jarek Lovesee said he refused to let Larry leave and the two men started fighting.
But before he explained what happened next, Jarek Lovesee asked for an attorney, so police cut the interview short, according to APD spokesman Simon Drobik.
Jarek Lovesee was charged with an open count of murder and booked into the Metropolitan Detention Center on a no-bond hold.
Police haven’t identified the man who was killed.
Most of the complex’s parking area is behind locked gates, but crime scene investigators Thursday morning photographed a Jeep Cherokee parked in a space out front of the complex. They haven’t said if it belonged to the man who was killed.
Kenny Fickling, who has lived in the complex for about three years, said he didn’t hear anything during the night and only realized there was a crime scene after he walked outside and saw the police were there.
He said the complex is usually quiet and safe.
“I occasionally have an issue finding a parking space, but it’s a pretty great complex,” Fickling said. “It has locked gates and is generally a lowkey area.”