A person who shot two ladies in an Aurora house in 2024, killing considered one of them, was convicted this month of homicide, in accordance with court docket data.
Kelynn Lewis, 34, was arrested and charged in February 2024 with first-degree homicide, tried first-degree homicide, witness tampering and 4 counts of kid abuse in Adams County District Court.
On Feb. 13, after a five-day trial, an Adams County jury convicted Lewis on lesser fees of second-degree homicide and tried second-degree homicide, court docket data present.
Lewis was additionally convicted on all 4 counts of kid abuse and of tampering with a witness, in accordance with a replica of the jury verdict sheet.
Aurora cops responded to stories of a taking pictures inside an house within the 1700 block of Paris Street, close to the University of Colorado Hospital, at about 8:20 p.m. on Feb. 9, 2024.
The one who known as 911 instructed dispatchers {that a} girl, recognized by police as 35-year-old Vatrice Lashae Little, had been shot within the face by a person, in accordance with Lewis’ arrest affidavit. Little was taken to the hospital, the place she was declared useless.
Little was inside her cousin’s house on Paris Street when Lewis, the cousin’s ex-husband, entered with a gun, police wrote within the affidavit.
Lewis shot at his ex-wife, who performed useless, and fired a further 4 to 5 rounds when Little moved in entrance of her cousin’s physique to intervene, in accordance with the doc. Four youngsters had been contained in the house on the time of the taking pictures however weren’t injured.
Earlier that day, the cousin had known as Lewis to inform him that he was not the organic father of her youngest baby, police mentioned.
Lewis will subsequent seem in court docket on May 15 for a sentencing listening to, in accordance with court docket data.
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