DENVER (KDVR) — A 60-year sentence was handed down Monday in Denver District Court docket after the long-time intimate companion of a Montbello girl pleaded responsible to capturing and killing her in her own residence.
Karol Bedoya, 44, was shot and killed on Feb. 24, 2023. On Monday, Clemente Flores-Hernandez pleaded responsible to 1 depend of second-degree homicide and one depend of first-degree assault, ensuing within the 60-year jail sentence.
In accordance with court docket information, Bedoya was watching TV on the sofa along with her 2-year-old grandson when Flores-Hernandez shot her 4 occasions at shut vary. Flores-Hernandez and Bedoya had been intimate companions for a decade, in line with police.
FOX31’s Talya Cunningham spoke with Miguel Bedoya, one in every of Bedoya’s grownup sons who tried to struggle off Flores-Hernandez in March 2023, and likewise tracked down the automobile that Flores-Hernandez used to flee the scene. He described listening to the gunshots after which Flores-Hernandez working towards him and pointing a gun at him earlier than they started to scuffle.
Miguel mentioned he was strangled by his mom’s attacker till he collapsed and almost handed out. That is when Flores-Hernandez grabbed the 2-year-old boy and drove away on Interstate 70, with Miguel in pursuit.
Colorado State Patrol troopers and the Adams County Sheriff’s Workplace caught Flores-Hernandez about 30 miles east of Denver after a high-speed chase on I-70. Miguel’s 2-year-old son was unhurt.
“Karol Bedoya’s homicide is yet one more horrible reminder of the tragic toll home violence takes on our group and our households,” mentioned Denver District Legal professional Matt Walsh in a launch. “We hope that as we speak’s responsible plea and sentence present some measure of consolation to Karol’s household and mates.”
Walsh additionally famous that the prosecution of the case was made potential by the DA’s workplace court-certified Spanish interpreter, Maite Lara-Roca.
