Gehrig Donald Kilburn, 23, male, died in Denver on April 22, 2012. In the pre-dawn hours, a driver struck a pedestrian on northbound Interstate 25 near the 20th Street area and kept going. Investigators would later place the impact at about 3:15 a.m., as the victim attempted to cross the freeway.
Within minutes, a Colorado State Patrol trooper stopped a speeding vehicle near I-25 and Highway 52, north of Denver, and noticed fresh front-end damage. Investigators connected that damage to the hit-and-run and took the driver, 20-year-old Uriel Lopez-Ramirez of Texas, into custody. Prosecutors charged him with vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death, along with DUI, reckless driving, no operator’s license, and possession of a controlled substance.
The Denver District Attorney’s filing places the crash squarely at I-25 near 20th Street and documents the sequence from the fatal impact to the trooper’s stop and arrest shortly afterward. Separately, local reporting the same week summarized the case, matching the time, location, and list of charges.
An obituary published in the Denver Post confirms Kilburn’s identity and date of death in Denver and records his birth on January 3, 1989, underscoring that he was 23 at the time.
