In the quiet Denver neighborhood of Platt Park, a story of a promising life cut tragically short unfolded in January 2021. Suni Marie Grooms, a 34-year-old White/Caucasian woman, was a dedicated nurse and a new mother, embarking on a fresh chapter of her life with her one-month-old daughter, Atlas. A compassionate caregiver by profession, she had recently become a homeowner, her life filled with the joy and anticipation that comes with a newborn. Her friends and colleagues knew her as a woman who believed in the best in everyone, a trait that made the events that followed all the more shocking.
On January 13, 2021, the life Suni was building came to a devastating end. Inside her home on South Logan Street, she and her infant daughter were found shot to death. The investigation into their deaths revealed a grim reality: a double murder-suicide orchestrated by someone intimately close to them. The perpetrator was identified as Denton Roberts, Suni's live-in boyfriend and the father of baby Atlas. Authorities determined that Roberts shot and killed Suni and their daughter before turning the gun on himself.
The tragedy left a community in mourning and a family grappling with an inexplicable loss. Those who knew Suni were stunned, stating there were no apparent signs of trouble in her relationship with Roberts. Police confirmed that there had been no prior calls for domestic violence to their residence. The motive behind the violent outburst remains unclear, leaving loved ones to remember Suni for the vibrant and caring person she was, a woman who dedicated her life to helping others, yet whose own life ended in a senseless act of violence. Because the suspect took his own life, no arrests were made in connection with the deaths of Suni and Atlas Grooms.
