Haywood Trisby, 19, was shot dead early July 18, 2026, in a parking lot near Memorial Park in Colorado Springs. Police say shots were reported on South Hancock Avenue about 2:30 a.m.; Trisby was found inside a car and later identified by the El Paso County Coroner’s Office. The killing was counted as Colorado Springs’s 10th homicide of the year.

Officers reported seeing a vehicle they believed was connected to the suspect leaving the area, which led to questioning and the arrest of 20-year-old Malaki Branch of Colorado Springs on suspicion of first-degree murder. Court documents allege the shooting followed a brief verbal altercation involving derogatory statements and that Trisby had been in his vehicle behind the car Branch had been riding in when shots were fired.

The Colorado Springs Police Department’s Violent Crimes Section was handling the investigation, and authorities asked anyone with information to come forward. Did anyone in the Memorial Park or South Hancock Avenue area see or hear anything that night?