SENTENCE OF 14 YEARS IN SHOOTING AT WALMART
A man was sentenced Tuesday to 14 years in prison for shooting another man in a parking lot dispute at a Walmart in Lakewood.
Kile Joshua Chaca, 22, was convicted last month by a Jefferson County jury of attempted second- degree murder and first- degree assault, according to the district attorney’s office.
On Aug. 25, 2019, Chaca shot the 33- year- old victim five times during a parking lot road rage incident, according to a news release.
The shooting Chaca was convicted of happened at 440 Wadsworth Blvd., where a separate shooting, this one fatal, happened Friday.
Steven Scott Hargis, 27, of Lakewood, was shot dead Friday morning as he sat in his car. The suspect in Hargis’ death, 46- yearold Matthew Lyvon Paul, was shot dead by Lakewood officers in an exchange of gunfire a few blocks away and a short time later, police said.
On Aug. 23, a pair of teen brothers — 18- year- old Damian Wikoff and 17year- old Dillon Wikoff — were shot dead in the parking lot of a Lakewood Walmart at 7455 W. Colfax Ave., according to police. A 17- year- old boy and
16- year- old boy have been arrested as suspects in the double shooting.
Deputy arrested on suspicion of child abuse. A 30- year- old Adams County sheriff’s deputy has been arrested on suspicion of child abuse causing serious bodily injury.
Robert Joseph Slater Sheetz, of Brighton, was arrested after police were called to Children’s Hospital on a child abuse report involving an infant child, according to a news release.
“The alleged assault occurred at the Sheetz family home in Brighton in the early morning hours of September 18,” police said.
Sheetz has been a deputy since September 2016 and he worked at the jail, according to the sheriff’s office. He has been place on administrative leave, per policy, pending the outcome of the case.
Police investigators will present their felony case against Sheetz to the Adams County District Attorney’s Office later this week, the release said.
Off- duty officer killed identified. The Aurora chief of police has identified an off- duty officer killed in a car crash over the weekend.
Chief Vanessa Wilson said in a tweet Monday that 25- year- old Mikaela M. Lakin was struck and killed in a crash at S. Aurora Parkway and E. Arapahoe Road while off duty Friday night.
A post on the Aurora Police Department blog states Lakin was riding a motorcycle eastbound on E. Arapahoe Road when the driver of a Honda Pilot made a left turn from westbound E. Arapahoe Road and failed to yield to Lakin, who had the rightofway, causing the crash. Lakin died at the scene.
The driver of the Honda Pilot stayed at the scene and was later treated for minor injuries, according to the post.
Lakin had served in the department since August 2019. Wilson said the other driver in the crash has been cooperative and added drugs, alcohol and speed were not factors in the crash.
Aurora police asked if anyone witnessed the crash to contact the department, or to call Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720- 913- 7867.