Colorado man arrested for allegedly killing cousin with bow and arrow: report

A Colorado man was arrested for allegedly killing his cousin with a bow and arrow earlier than police caught him attempting to interrupt into the station to give up, a report mentioned.

Carlos Alberto Trejo reportedly admitted he “simply awoke” and shot 37-year-old Martin Rodarte within the chest with the weapon at their Colorado Springs residence earlier this month, a sworn possible trigger affidavit obtained by Legislation&Crime states.

Trejo allegedly made the confession after busting right into a Colorado Springs police station by means of a again window round 1:30 a.m. Dec. 18, the report states.

When police requested Trejo what he was doing, the 36-year-old man allegedly mentioned “I simply awoke and shot my good friend within the chest … I shot him with an arrow.”

Police initially didn’t consider Trejo’s alleged admission to homicide. That they had been known as to cope with him simply two days earlier once they say he admitted to utilizing cocaine and acid.

On Dec. 16, Trejo reportedly advised cops “there was a scenario within the condo which he needed to get away from,” the affidavit says. Trejo refused to supply additional data and officers who tried to name him again mentioned he was “very uncooperative.”

4 hours later, police had been known as to a welfare verify on Trejo, who had made his strategy to Guthrie’s Bar and Grill, a couple of blocks from his condo. Trejo was allegedly “on acid, hallucinating, and making different clients uncomfortable” and police described him as “emotionally distraught.”

Trejo was taken to a hospital for analysis “for a potential acid overdose.”

Regardless of not believing Trejo after he broke into the station, officers determined to verify his condo and located the door unlocked. Inside, they discovered the physique of an grownup male on the bed room ground with a “compound archery bow” beside him.

Trejo’s girlfriend reportedly advised investigators she had been dwelling within the condo till the 2 had a “disturbance.” She moved out a couple of weeks earlier than the homicide and Rodarte, who she mentioned was Trejo’s cousin, moved in.

Trejo is at the moment being held within the El Paso County Jail on $500,000 bond, jail data present,