Man Shoots Buddy as Each Mourn Over One other’s Grave After Sufferer Says He Has to Vomit: Police

Ryan Trujillo-Falcon, 22 (high left) and Geano Eugene Chavez, 20 (high proper) had been allegedly collectively at Crown Hill Cemetery in Wheat Ridge, Colorado earlier than 11 p.m. on August 17, 2024 to rejoice the birthday of a pal shot and killed two years prior.

The cemetery was closed on the time of their purported go to.

“These individuals had been all recognized to one another. They went there collectively to go to the gravesite of somebody that all of them knew, who had simply had a birthday,” Jefferson County Sheriff spokesperson Jacki Kelley advised KDVR.

Now, Trujillo-Falcon is going through fees of first diploma homicide, second diploma assault, and unlawfully carrying a hid weapon. Chavez is lifeless.

The 2 males had been purportedly with a gaggle of mourners who’d all come to honor their late pal on his birthday when Chavez expressed to Trujillo-Falcon that he was feeling sick and thought he would possibly must vomit, per the court docket’s affidavit.

When police arrived on the scene simply earlier than 11 p.m., they discovered Chavez with a gunshot wound to the appropriate facet of his chest, per the affidavit. He was transported to a close-by hospital by ambulance and pronounced lifeless roughly one hour later.

After a search of the cemetery, Trujillo-Falcon was reportedly taken into custody. The responding sheriff’s deputies acknowledged that Trujillo-Falcon waived his Miranda rights and advised them the place the gun used int the capturing was.

In line with Deputy Alex DeLeon within the court docket affidavit, Trujillo-Falcon advised him, “I shot the n—a that I believed was my brother.”

The next day, Trujillo-Falcon detailed what occurred that evening, per court docket paperwork. He purportedly defined that he had arrived on the cemetery round 8 p.m. to pay respects to pal Christian Cabrera, who was shot and killed two years prior.

Whereas there with household and pals round his pal’s grave, Chavez purportedly expressed to Trujillo-Falcon he wanted to vomit. The suspect advised police he replied that if he was going to be sick, he wanted to go to the road, however he stated Chavez declined to do that and as an alternative expressed he was going to do it on the grave subsequent to him.

Trujillo-Falcon advised police that he started to argue with Chavez and one other mourner, Ariana Martinez. He then claimed Martinez escalated the argument, punching her within the mouth, per the paperwork, and pulling him to the bottom by his hair.

In line with Trujillo-Falcon within the affidavit, whereas he was on the bottom, he pulled out his gun and struck Martinez within the head with the butt of it. He then regained his ft, per the doc, and advised Chavez to cease. It was when Chaves purportedly began coming towards him that Trujillo-Falcon advised deputies he fired one shot.

Whereas he admitted not having a hid carry license, Trujillo-Falcon advised deputies he’d started carrying a firearm after Cabrera was shot, and had it hidden in his entrance waistband that day. The suspect advised authorities he initially shed his jacket, dumped the gun, and tried to cover, earlier than lastly standing up and turning himself in.

Martinez was handled on the hospital for non-threatening wounds and launched, per Legislation & Crime. Chavez died on the hospital. Trujillo-Falcon is being held on $1 million bond on the Jefferson County Jail.

“That is the primary for me in my profession that we’ve been dispatched to a cemetery that was in reference to the capturing of an individual who ended up dying,” Kelley advised KDVR. “The cemetery is a spot that comforts individuals. Oftentimes, it’s a spot to go go to somebody that you just’ve misplaced, however it’s not usually a spot of violence.”

In response to the lethal capturing, the cemetery launched an announcement to KDVR. “We’re saddened by the circumstances of the evening of August 17. Any such scenario is extremely uncommon at a funeral house or cemetery. We’re cooperating absolutely with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Workplace investigation, as security of the households we serve is of the utmost significance to us.”

In a GoFundMe arrange after Chavez’ loss of life to assist pay for funeral providers, his brother Romeo Chavez wrote, “His life was taken by an individual he referred to as a pal. No, Geano was the definition of a real pal. He would provide the shirt off his again no questions requested.”