Detectives say a 20-year-old Palmer Lake woman was fatally shot last Thursday by her ex-boyfriend, who reportedly stalked her outside her workplace hours before and threatened to kill her a week earlier, according to court documents released Wednesday.
After a 24-hour manhunt, local authorities arrested 35-year-old Jose Alfredo Romero on suspicion of killing 20-year-old Keyry Estefania Hernandez-Marroquin, according to the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office and El Paso County Coroner’s Office.
Romero allegedly shot Hernandez-Marroquin through her car window, after he sped in front of her car, cutting her off late afternoon Jan. 14 in the parking lot of a mobile trailer home park at 702 Highway 105, according to court documents.
Suspect arrested in Palmer Lake shooting
EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) The El Paso County Sheriff s Department confirmed a suspect in a deadly shooting in Palmer Lake is now in custody.
On Friday, the Regional Fugitives Unit, Bureau of Alcohol, Tabacco, Firearms, and explosives, and the Colorado Springs Police Department Tactical Enforcement Unit found and arrested Jose Alfredo Romero, 36.
Deputies say Romero was booked into the El Paso County Jail and is charged with First Degree Murder.
The Palmer Lake Police Department initially responded to a shooting Thursday at 4:26 p.m. that happened in the 700 block of Highway 105.
At the scene, deputies and officers found a woman dead from a gunshot wound.
Authorities in El Paso County searching for man accused of fatally shooting woman Thursday
El Paso County Sheriff s Office
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. â Authorities in El Paso County are searching for a man suspected of fatally shooting a woman and fleeing from the scene.
The El Paso County Sheriff s Office said at 4:26 p.m. on Thursday, deputies and officers from the Palmer Lake Police Department responded to a shooting along the 700 block of Highway 105.
When they arrived at the scene, they found a woman who had died from a gunshot wound.
Detectives stayed at the scene for hours collecting evidence and taking witness statements, the sheriff s office said.
Colorado Springs police arrested a man Friday suspected of killing a woman in a deadly shooting in Palmer Lake, officials said.
Jose Alfredo Romero, 35, faces a charge of first-degree murder, according to the El Paso County Sheriff s Office.
The shooting was reported around 4:30 p.m. Thursday in the 700 block of Colorado 105, where Palmer Lake police and El Paso County sheriff s deputies found a woman dead of a gunshot wound. The victim s name was not released.
Romero was spotted Friday morning near 700 block of North Union Boulevard in central Colorado Springs, police said. Tactical officers and K9 dogs searched the area until they found him and took him into custody without incident.