A verbal altercation on the morning of August 18, 2024, in Denver escalated into a deadly shooting that claimed the life of 26-year-old Efrain Enrique Palacio Delgado. The Hispanic/Latino man was shot near W. Arkansas Avenue and S. Knox Court at about 9 a.m. The shooter, known to Palacio Delgado, immediately fled in a vehicle and was pursued by police for roughly 20 minutes through city streets.

That pursuit ended near S. University Boulevard and Cherry Hills Farm Drive when the fleeing vehicle collided with another car and stopped. Officers found the suspect, identified as 30-year-old Aldo Villa-Ceballos, deceased inside from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound; the occupants of the struck vehicle were not injured. The Denver Police Department has classified the case as a homicide.

Are there witnesses or anyone with information about the altercation or the moments before the shooting who can help investigators?