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Colorado Springs police obtained an arrest warrant for 25-year-old Billy Joe Torrez Jr., right, in March, officers said. The department hasn t said why it suspects Torrez in the 2020 killing and released no other new details on the case. Torrez is a suspect in the killing of Samantha Morgan, police said.
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Suspect identified in killing of 36-year-old woman in northeast Colorado Springs
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) Nearly a year after a woman died from being shot in northeast Colorado Springs, police investigators have publicly identified a suspect who s wanted for murder.
According to the Colorado Springs Police Department, 25-year-old Billy Joe Torrez is facing a charge of first-degree murder for allegedly killing 36-year-old Samantha Morgan in May 2020.
CSPD said last year that officers were called to a local hospital around 1:10 a.m. on May 29, 2020 after Morgan showed up with a life-threatening gunshot wound. The officers spoke to people who took her to the hospital and learned that the shooting happened in a parking lot near 4600 Hinsdale Way.
Police urged community members to provide information during their search for a man suspected of killing a 36-year-old mother or three in Colorado Springs last year, law enforcement announced Tuesday.
Colorado Springs police obtained an arrest warrant for 25-year-old Billy Joe Torrez Jr. in March, officers said. The department hasn t said why it suspects Torrez in the killing and released no other new details on the case.
Torrez is a suspect in the killing of Samantha Morgan, police said.
Morgan was shot in a parking lot near 4600 Hinsdale Way, near Austin Bluffs Parkway and Barnes Road on May 29, 2020 and died at a Colorado Springs hospital.
The county plans to rely on the public’s honesty when it comes to enforcement.
“It’s on the honor system, when the people show up that they are not misrepresenting their situation,” said Solano County Health Officer Dr. Bela Matyas.
According to the county’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution page, they expect to vaccinate 5,300 people in the next week.
But Matyas says the county could give five times that many shots if it just had enough doses.
“The supply comes, and we take advantage of all that we can get, and into people’s arms as quickly as we can,” she said.
Miracle Dog Appears Weeks After Going Missing in Michigan Apartment Fire
On 3/1/21 at 9:58 AM EST
A Michigan man has described his pet as a miracle dog after it survived a house fire and was found alive two weeks later in the burnt-out building.
Dino Rasera, 35, was asleep on the night of February 13 when a fire broke out at the River North Village apartment complex in the city of Mount Clemens where he lived.
The apartment building had 24 units in total, and all of the residents were left without belongings or shelter afterwards.
His dog, a black-and-white Chihuahua puppy named Marble, could not be found immediately after the fire, leading Rasera and local fire authorities to issue a plea for residents to be on the lookout.