Man Shoots Pal 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 buddy shot and killed two years prior.

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

“These folks had been all identified 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 informed KDVR.

Now, Trujillo-Falcon is dealing with 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 bunch of mourners who’d all come to honor their late buddy 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 said that Trujillo-Falcon waived his Miranda rights and informed them the place the gun used int the capturing was.

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

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

Whereas there with household and mates round his buddy’s grave, Chavez purportedly expressed to Trujillo-Falcon he wanted to vomit. The suspect informed 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 a substitute expressed he was going to do it on the grave subsequent to him.

Trujillo-Falcon informed 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 accordance 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 informed Chavez to cease. It was when Chaves purportedly began coming towards him that Trujillo-Falcon informed deputies he fired one shot.

Whereas he admitted not having a hid carry license, Trujillo-Falcon informed deputies he’d started carrying a firearm after Cabrera was shot, and had it hidden in his entrance waistband that day. The suspect informed 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 Regulation & 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 informed KDVR. “The cemetery is a spot that comforts folks. Oftentimes, it’s a spot to go go to somebody that you simply’ve misplaced, however it’s not sometimes a spot of violence.”

In response to the lethal capturing, the cemetery launched a press release to KDVR. “We’re saddened by the circumstances of the night time of August 17. This sort of scenario is extremely uncommon at a funeral house or cemetery. We’re cooperating totally 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’ dying to assist pay for funeral providers, his brother Romeo Chavez wrote, “His life was taken by an individual he referred to as a buddy. No, Geano was the definition of a real buddy. He would provide the shirt off his again no questions requested.”