On the afternoon of December 23, 2019, an Adams County deputy on routine patrol discovered an injured man near 136th Avenue and Franklin Street after witnessing a driver pull someone from the back seat of a full-size pickup and then flee. The abandoned man was 25-year-old Alejandro Antonio Villagrana of Brighton, Colorado. Villagrana had a gunshot wound to his lower torso, was transported to a trauma center, and died of his injuries.

Investigators identified 25-year-old Rodolfo Antonio Ramirez as the suspect after interviewing multiple witnesses, though authorities did not disclose the exact relationship between Villagrana and Ramirez or the events that led to the shooting. A search for Ramirez ended on January 3, 2020, when he was taken into custody at a Denver residence and later charged with manslaughter, a class four felony, in connection with Villagrana’s death.

Are there details about Alejandro’s life or movements that anyone in the Brighton or Adams County area can share to help clarify what happened that afternoon?