A shooting at the Peak Tavern, 2001 East Platte Avenue in Colorado Springs, left 32-year-old Abraham Joseph Parsons dead in the early morning of November 19, 2020. Officers arrived after a 1:31 A.M. call and found Parsons with an apparent gunshot wound; he was taken to a hospital and later died. The El Paso County Coroner’s Office completed an autopsy the next day and identified him as Abraham Parsons. The case was recorded as the city’s 35th homicide that year.

Colorado Springs Police Homicide/Assault detectives questioned witnesses and processed the scene, identified a suspect, and obtained an arrest warrant for 26-year-old Joshua Martinez-Torres on a charge of Murder in the First Degree; Martinez-Torres was arrested and held at the El Paso County Jail. The motive has not been released.

If anyone has information about Parsons, the incident at Peak Tavern, or witnessed the early morning of November 19, please share what you know.