The Pueblo Police Department is seeking Jason Martinez, 28, on suspicion of attempted first-degree murder in a November shooting that left one person injured.
Officers were dispatched at approximately 10:48 p.m. Nov. 25 to the 2100 block of East 14th Street on reports of a shooting. Upon arrival, they discovered a victim with multiple gunshot wounds.
Martinez is described as a 5-foot-4 Hispanic male with a thin build. Police say he has a history of using weapons and should be considered armed and dangerous. He also reportedly has a “UNLV” tattoo over his right eyebrow.
Investigators believe Martinez is in Southern Colorado, possibly with his girlfriend, Marissa Valdez, 21. She’s described as 5-foot-6 and weighing 130 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. She also has a felony warrant related to identity theft.
Susan Faust January 12, 2021Updated: January 26, 2021, 7:06 am
Mainstream children’s publishers have mostly shied away from books about the 45th president. Standing almost alone is a highly critical young adult biography from last year, “Unpresidented: A Biography of Donald Trump” by Martha Brockenbrough (Feiwel & Friends and reviewed in September 2019).
Yes, there are Trump parodies and coloring books for kids, but editor Jill Santopolo from Philomel, a division of Penguin Random House, sheds some light on the near vacuum of more serious-minded works.
“Our goal is to publish books that inspire and empower and teach children about kindness, compassion and inclusivity,” she explained in a recent interview. “Donald Trump didn’t feel like the right subject matter match for our list.”
Interview Highlights
On what inspired her to write children s books
Becoming a kids book author is never what I imagined. It was never on my my bucket list. I m sort of an accidental author. . [I remember] reading the classics to my older daughter and wondering, you know, where the black children were. They were not represented on the pages of books. We would color the skin color in with a brown marker; often we would change pronouns from he, to she, to they.
And I saw, you know, firsthand . this idea that you can t be what you can t see. . Now [my daughter] says she wants to be a president and an astronaut when she grows up and that is because she saw a family member running for president. It s because she read a book about [astronaut] Mae Jemison.
When now Vice President-elect Kamala Harris was "accused" of being "too ambitious" on the campaign trail, it spurred her niece, activist and author Meena Harris, into action.