Juan Carlos Medrano-Velasquez

On a warm evening in Rifle, Colorado, the night before the Fourth of July in 2001, tragedy struck the small community. Juan Carlos Medrano-Velasquez, a 22-year-old Hispanic male, was among four people killed in a violent rampage. The night's events began to unfold around 11:45 p.m. at a local City Market grocery store. A man named Steven Michael Stagner, a 42-year-old white male, initiated an attack that would also claim the lives of Juan Carlos's brother, 23-year-old Melquiades Medrano-Velasque ...

DA will not seek death penalty in Stagner case

No death penalty in Rifle shootings case