In the early morning hours of May 4, 2017, the sound of gunshots shattered the pre-dawn stillness in the parking lot of the Rivera Motel on Colfax Avenue in Aurora, Colorado. When police arrived around 1 a.m., they discovered a man suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest. The victim, identified as 32-year-old Marquette D. Killingsworth, a male, was rushed to a nearby hospital, but his injuries proved fatal, and he was pronounced dead.
Investigators began piecing together the events
of that tragic morning, though it was not immediately clear what led to the shooting or if Killingsworth had been a guest at the motel. In the hours following the discovery, police activity in the area led to a lockout at a nearby elementary school. While an arrest was made in a separate robbery case in the vicinity, authorities could not immediately confirm if it was connected to Killingsworth's death.
A significant development in the case came five days later, on May 9, 2017. Acting on information gathered during their investigation, members of a SWAT team descended on an apartment in Colorado Springs. There, they took a suspect into custody in connection with the fatal shooting of Marquette Killingsworth.
Despite the arrest, authorities did not publicly release the suspect's name. Details about a potential motive for the killing or whether there was any prior relationship between the suspect and Killingsworth remained undisclosed as the investigation continued. Information regarding the resolution of the arrest and any subsequent legal proceedings is not available in online sources.
