On a quiet Sunday afternoon over Labor Day weekend in 2022, 37-year-old Olvin Yonairo Montoya Ramirez drove from Greeley, Colorado, with his young son to a rural property on County Road 161, about eleven miles south of Pine Bluffs, Wyoming, to pick up his roommate, 31-year-old Yigner Rodrigo Turcios-Romero. The two men and a friend, Aparicio Garcia, were in a detached garage where Turcios-Romero, agitated over relationship troubles, reportedly produced a handgun and fired a single shot into Montoya Ramirez’s head. Emergency responders transported him for care, but an autopsy concluded he died of a gunshot wound to the head.

After the shooting Turcios-Romero fled on a bicycle and hid overnight in a nearby cornfield while deputies searched the area; authorities later acknowledged a delay in warning residents about an armed suspect at large. He surrendered to deputies around 1 p.m. the next day and was booked into the Laramie County Detention Center. Laramie County authorities charged him in connection with the killing; he was arraigned, bound over to district court, and entered a plea of not guilty, with a jury trial initially scheduled for March 13, 2023. The case remains focused on the single gunshot in the detached garage.

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