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On the morning of September 16, 2014, police in Aurora, Colorado, responded to an apartment on Lima Street after a domestic disturbance involving 24-year-old Danielle Stephanie Griego and her 44-year-old boyfriend, Elmo Johnson. Officers found Griego at the scene but Johnson had fled; friends later said Griego had been abused by Johnson on multiple occasions and had been choked and hit the night before. Griego was uncooperative with investigators that morning and Johnson was not located.

That afternoon Griego’s mother, Stephanie Griego, returned to the apartment concerned for her granddaughter and discovered Danielle dead from a gunshot wound to the chest. An unconscious Elmo Johnson was found nearby; he had apparently overdosed on drugs. Johnson was hospitalized, then arrested the next day on suspicion of first-degree murder and felony menacing. During the subsequent trial Johnson’s sister testified she heard a confrontation around 2 a.m., with Griego exclaiming and Johnson yelling shut up, followed by two gunshots. In December 2015 a judge sentenced Elmo Jesse Johnson to life in prison after a jury convicted him of first-degree murder and menacing with a weapon.

Did anyone in the area hear or see anything the night of September 15–16 that wasn’t reported?