On the night of July 3, 2025, 24-year-old Rylee James Ferari was found fatally shot inside a vehicle pulled over on the side of Highway 85/87 near Main Street in an unincorporated area of El Paso County, near Fountain, Colorado. Deputies responded to a 911 call reporting a robbery around 10:45 p.m. and discovered Ferari and another victim, a 16-year-old who was later identified by family as Kaegan Wellman, also fatally shot.

The Major Crimes Unit of the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office led the investigation; the highway was closed for several hours while the scene was processed and the El Paso County Coroner’s Office confirmed both victims’ identities. Detectives named 23-year-old Eddie LaCharles Jackson a person of interest, located him at Denver International Airport with Denver police assistance, and after interviews arrested and booked him on two counts of second-degree murder. He was held on $500,000 cash-only bond and, as of late summer 2025, court proceedings were pending and no other arrests had been announced.

Did anyone in Fountain or the Security-Widefield area see activity along Highway 85/87 that night or know anything about the robbery call?