On Friday afternoon, February 5, 2021, officers in Colorado Springs responded to a reported shooting at an apartment complex on Galley Road. Inside one of the residences they found 44-year-old John Richard Roth dead from gunshot wounds, and another man suffering serious injuries who was taken to a nearby hospital. The Violent Crimes Section classified the incident as a homicide and the El Paso County Coroner’s Office confirmed Roth’s cause of death by autopsy the next day.

Police described the investigation as active and ongoing and asked the public for help. No motive, persons of interest, or arrests have been publicly released. If anyone has information about what happened at the Galley Road apartment on February 5, 2021, please share it with investigators. Could anyone who was in that area that afternoon provide details that might help the case?