Marcus Dwayne Hardin, 41, was shot dead inside the Haven at Valley Hi apartments on Teal Court in Colorado Springs on January 28, 2020. Police found Hardin inside after a 911 call; he died of gunshot wounds. The incident is described as the culmination of a domestic dispute.

The 911 caller was Hardin’s 30-year-old girlfriend, Erica Arellano. According to her account to police, the argument centered on their relationship. Arellano reported that Hardin blocked the door as she tried to leave to pick up her child, then attacked her, striking her with a shaker bottle and his fists. She said she crawled away with a gun, stood near the living room couch and fired two shots. Arellano was detained at the scene and charged with second-degree murder.

Hardin was a longtime Colorado resident and a father of three; family and friends remembered him as caring and always smiling. Did anyone in the area know Marcus or witness what happened that night?