Heather Perry was 21 when she was found fatally shot in an east Denver alley on May 9, 2020. Her body was located between the 1400 block of North Verbena Street and North Valentia Street. The cause of death was determined to be a gunshot wound.

Police traced movements from nearby surveillance footage to 40-year-old Cornelius Haney, who was arrested two days later hiding in a motel bathroom. Officers recovered two baggies of suspected cocaine at the time of his arrest. Haney had been granted early parole on April 15, 2020, under a special needs parole program implemented to reduce the prison population during the COVID-19 pandemic; he had been serving a seven-year sentence for a 2016 robbery and was not due for mandatory release until August 2020.

Haney was charged with first-degree murder, felony murder, second-degree murder, second-degree kidnapping, theft, drug possession, and possession of a weapon by a previous offender. The motive for the shooting was not made clear in initial reports. Does anyone have information about Heather’s last known movements or about the alley near North Verbena and North Valentia?