Marcus Howard Denton was 20 when he was found dead in Colorado Springs on the evening of April 21, 2018. Denton and a 21-year-old companion, Serena Lee Garcia, were discovered inside a parked car in the 300 block of Bergamo Way, near Lower Gold Camp Road, both having suffered fatal gunshot wounds in what police described as a double homicide.

Investigators identified a suspect, then 19-year-old Nashid Rayon Rivers, who was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. A second person, Marquis Hazard, was also implicated and charged under a theory of complicity. Prosecutors said the killings grew out of a scheme to steal marijuana by luring Denton to what he believed was a transaction; Garcia, a nursing student at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, had picked Denton up after his vehicle crashed on a snowy road and was caught in the ambush. Authorities say Rivers shot both victims in the head and then set the vehicle on fire with gasoline, burning himself and fleeing without the drugs.

Denton, originally from Atchison, Kansas, was remembered for his love of music and baseball. If anyone has information about that night or knew Denton or Garcia, please share what you know.