Prohibition agent Dale Kearney was gunned down by bootleggers in Aguilar on July 6, 1930, and the city's mayor was arrested as a suspect.
John Boccaccio was the sixth person apprehended in the week following the murder. He was freed as were the others and the murder has never been solved.
Kearney, 30, was "drilled by a fusillade" shotgun pellets, the Rocky Mountain News said.
Kearney was based in Trinidad - turf controlled by the Carlino gang - and Aguilar was a major supplier for thirsty Denver. The lawman had uncovered a large still on the outskirts of the southern Colorado town just weeks earlier.
"A mysterious telephone call received by Kearney in Trinidad early in the evening took the agent on his fatal errand," the News said.
The agent was taken down after he left a restaurant. The deadly blast shattered a store window behind Kearney.
"One report was that two men lay in wait for Kearney behind a fence opposite his automobile, and opened fire as he walked into the street," the News said.
"Another report was that some of the assassins, in typical gangland style, sped by in an automobile and fired additional shots as their car shot past Kearney," the newspaper said.
Boccaccio, the Aguilar mayor, wasn't re-elected.
[Photo: Rocky Mountain News]
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