Daxcimo Ceja, 48, became the subject of a homicide investigation in Colorado Springs on March 30, 2022. For months his body was not found. An anonymous tip on October 5, 2023, led investigators to a drainage culvert near the 500 block of West Polk Street where a bag containing human remains was recovered; an autopsy on October 11, 2023, confirmed the remains were Ceja’s.

The investigation quickly focused on 40-year-old Deka Simmons of Colorado Springs. A warrant for first-degree murder was issued for Simmons on April 5, 2022, and she was taken into custody on April 7, 2022, by the Colorado Springs Police Department’s Violent Offender Fugitive Task Force and Tactical Enforcement Unit. Court testimony includes a witness who said they saw Simmons shoot Ceja in a garage, and DNA from blood found in the garage was linked to Simmons.

Prosecutors have presented a motive tied to Simmons’s hostility toward people who had committed sexual offenses, and testimony described Simmons learning that Ceja allegedly had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old when he was 25. What additional information can anyone with knowledge of Ceja, Simmons, or the neighborhood around West Polk Street share?