On January 9, 2022, a drive-by shooting at the Summit Creek Apartments on South Chelton Road in Colorado Springs left 13-year-old Marcus Venezio-Hernandez dead. Marcus was a passenger in a vehicle hit by a barrage of gunfire around 1:19 a.m.; the vehicle sustained 16 bullet holes and multiple occupants were struck. Marcus and 15-year-old Nevean Tafoya, both from Pueblo, were pronounced dead at the scene. Four others — one adult and three juveniles — suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

The El Paso County Coroner’s Office ruled Marcus’s death a homicide. Investigators, working with the U.S. Marshals Service, identified two suspects and made arrests: 19-year-old Kadin Dyer Blaschke was taken into custody in Reno, Nevada on January 13, 2022, and a 17-year-old was arrested in Colorado Springs two days later. Both were charged with two counts of second-degree murder; court documents say the shooting was an attempted robbery. Marcus’s family objected strongly when a plea agreement surfaced that would send Blaschke to the Youthful Offender System for seven years, and planned to speak at sentencing.

Did anyone in the area witness the vehicle or the shooting that night or recognize anyone involved?