A homicide occurred inside a room at the Isle Hotel and Casino in Black Hawk, Colorado, in the early morning hours of a Tuesday in June. Tony Velasquez, 26, of Thornton, was found dead with a gunshot wound to his head after a call to emergency services came in around 6 a.m. The town had not seen a homicide in over a decade.

Several people who had been in the hotel room were detained for questioning while the Black Hawk Police Department, assisted by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, worked the scene. By late afternoon an acquaintance of Velasquez, 43-year-old Colleen Marie Loris, was arrested and booked into the Gilpin County Jail on a charge of second-degree murder and other offenses. Authorities confirmed Loris and Velasquez knew each other; no motive or further relationship details were released.

Did anyone in the area see or hear anything that morning that could help clarify what happened?