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On January 15, 2017, what began as a birthday gathering at a home on County Road Y in Capulin, Colorado, ended in a mass shooting that killed three people, including 57-year-old Guadalupe Cervantes. The group had been watching a football game at a local bar earlier; a 25-year-old man, Santos Navares, who had been at the bar and allegedly became belligerent, followed them to the residence. Shortly after 6 p.m. Navares began shooting.

Deputies from the Conejos County Sheriff’s Office found Cervantes with a gunshot wound to the head; he was alive when found but died after officers began CPR. Jose M. Archuleta, 54, was found dead from a gunshot to the head. Marissa Herrera, 30, was critically wounded with a gunshot to the head and later died after being flown to a Denver hospital. Don L. Martinez, 34, survived a gunshot wound to the chest. Navares fled in a stolen van but was arrested a few miles away after the vehicle became stuck in the snow; he was reportedly intoxicated and armed and later said he had no memory of the shootings. The motive was not immediately clear, though reports said Navares had been confrontational at the bar after Herrera had rebuffed his advances.

Does anyone have information about the hours before the shooting or recall seeing the stolen van in that area that evening?