A 34-year-old Adams County man is charged with first-degree murder after allegedly running over a pedestrian following a fight on the side of the road in Thornton, according to an arrest affidavit.
after Thornton police tracked a red Ford SUV seen leaving the scene of a fatal hit-and-run around 1:30 a.m. that day.
Witnesses at the scene gave different accounts of the initial encounter, with one woman telling police it appeared Lopez dropped off Vasquez before they started fighting, according to the affidavit. Lopez and Vasquez then started fighting, and the second witness told police Vasquez was swinging a large chain with a lock on it toward Lopez.
Lopez told police he had stopped to see if Vasquez needed help when Vasquez attacked him with the lock and chain and hit him over the head, causing a head injury so “he could not think straight.”
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