A grandmother was shot on her couch while she watched TV with her grandson after her boyfriend suddenly came in and opened the fire.
Karol Bedoya, 44, died sitting sitting next to the terrified two -year -old, while her son, the boy's father, was in the basement and powerless to save her.
Her 10-year-old boyfriend, Clemente Flores-Hernandez, 45, shot her four times in the short term seconds after entering the house in Denver on February 4, 2023.
Bedoya's adult son Miguel Bedoya heard the shots and rushed up in a panic around 8 p.m., but was confronted with the still armed murderer.
“I just hear them go boom, boom,” he told the local media.
He told the police that the murderer shot himself on him several times until his gun was empty but missed, and they fought hand in hand until Miguel was almost strangled.
Flores-Hernandez let him go before he ran out of the air, then grabbed the little boy and fled the night.
Miguel chased and was able to keep Flores-Hernandez in sight long enough to warn the police at his location until his car no longer had gas.
Karol Bedoya, 44, was shot on her couch while she watched TV with her grandson after her boyfriend suddenly came in and opened the fire
Clemente Flores-Hernandez, 45, shot her four times in the short term seconds after entering the house in Denver
The murderer fled the police in a rapid chase along the I-70 until the police blew out their tires by putting Spikes on the road.
Flores-Hernandez was arrested in Strasburg, a city 30 miles east of Denver, and the toddler was saved unharmed.
He was originally accused of murder in the first degree, first degree attempted murder and kidnapping of the first degree and child abuse, but argued for second -degree murder and first degree attack.
Flores -Hernandez was imprisoned for another 60 years – 48 years before the killing of Bedoya and 12 years for attacking her son – to walk successively.
Bedoya's brother -in -law Rodrigo Angianano said she kept the relationship problems secret, but he saw something reaching her in the last three months.
“I saw her almost every day and she didn't tell us anything. A week prior to all this she broke and cried here at the house, “he told KDVR.
“She just broke and told us she was unhappy and wanted him to leave.”
Bedoya as a young woman with her now adult children
Bedoya's adult son Miguel Bedoya (depicted) heard the shots and rushed up in a panic around 8 p.m., but was confronted with the still armed murderer
Anguiarano said she was afraid of Flores-Hernandez and tried to leave him.
Denver District Attorney John Walsh celebrated the punishment and expressed condolences for the family and friends of Bedoya.
“Karol Bedoya's murder is another terrible memory of the tragic toll domestic violence assumes our community and our families,” he said.
“We hope that the culprit plea and the meaning of today will offer a certain degree of comfort to Karol's family and friends.”
