Daniel Dacy, a 32-year-old White male, was found mortally wounded on the evening of February 3, 2021, after collapsing in the driveway of a business in the 400 block of East City Center Drive, near the intersection with Chester Avenue in Pueblo. Responding officers were dispatched at approximately 7:21 p.m. and discovered that Dacy had been shot; investigators later determined he had been struck by gunfire along the west bank of Fountain Creek before managing to walk west toward the nearby
businesses where he fell. He was identified as Daniel Morgan Dacy and described in early accounts as a man experiencing homelessness in the area near the creek.
Detectives from the Pueblo Police Department’s Crimes Against Persons Section followed leads in the days after the killing and announced an arrest just over a month later. On March 10, 2021, with assistance from the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office, officers arrested 43-year-old Hilario Gonzalez-Solis in El Paso County. Gonzalez-Solis was booked into the Pueblo County Detention Center on a charge of first-degree murder in connection with Dacy’s death. Authorities’ timeline stated that the shooting occurred along Fountain Creek and that Dacy then traveled on foot before collapsing, details that matched the scene officers encountered on City Center Drive.
Police updates released the following day and local news coverage reiterated the arrest and the allegation that Gonzalez-Solis was responsible for the February 3 killing. Public posts from the department and regional outlets reported his age, the arrest date, and the booking information, noting the case as a homicide of a man who had collapsed near Fountain Creek. Subsequent public records and aggregator listings preserved the same core facts but did not provide a publicly available adjudication of the charge.
