Denver North High School senior Alaina Martinez and seven others were gunned down in a drive-by shooting at a house party in Adams County.
Martinez, 17, was the sole fatality in the hail of bullets in a tidy neighborhood on Dakin Street, near Denver, on Oct. 15, 2022, at 3 a.m.
The cheerful youth was a triple Cinco de Mayo baby, according to her obituary - born May 5, 2005, and was preparing to take classes through a University of Colorado Denver pre-collegiate program.
Martinez had dreams of a career in veterinary medicine and "was so passionate about animals that she would volunteer to walk some of the neighborhood dogs," her obituary also said. And she liked anime and Minecraft.
The drive-by death car, a dark blue Chevy Tahoe, opened fire as teens poured from the home into the yard. Some of those in the yard pulled guns and returned fire - in all perhaps three dozen shots.
A neighbor told 9News a fight may have preceded the bloodbath.
The Adams County Sheriff's Office posted a $5,000 reward for information in the tragedy. Sheriff Gene Claps said: "No piece of information is too small and could be what we need to help solve this case.”
If you have information, call Metro Denver Crime Stoppers (720) 913-7867.
[Photo: National Gun Violence Memorial]
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