Parole killed in shootout with police cut off ankle monitor the night before
A parole who died during a shootout with Pueblo Police Sunday morning was supposed to be wearing an ankle monitor, but he wasn’t.
A spokeswoman with the Department of Corrections told KRDO NewsChannel 13 that Orlando Lopez, 26, removed his ankle monitor before the home invasion and chase that led to the shooting.
A warrant was issued for Lopez’s arrest Saturday night after the Department of Corrections received a strap tamper alert from his monitor, according to spokeswoman Adrienne Jacobson.
Lopez, who also went by Chism, had been wearing an ankle monitor for seven months. He was on parole for robbery and menacing convictions from 2009 in Pueblo County.
The situation that led to the shooting started on the 1200 block of E. 10th Street at around 11:15 a.m. Sunday (1/25/15) when officers were responding to a home invasion.
Police said two men left the house when they arrived. The suspects jumped in a car and drove away from the home.
After a short chase, the car crashed into another vehicle and ended up in the parking lot of Praise Assembly of God Church near Troy and Oakshire
Roberto Rodriguez-Garcia, 22, was taken into custody at the church, while Lopez ran into a nearby field where he got into a shootout with police.
Rodriguez-Garcia is currently facing charges for menacing with a deadly weapon and burglary.
The shootout between Lopez and Pueblo Police was captured on at least one officer’s body camera. KRDO NewsChannel 13 will be at a news conference Wednesday about the body cameras and post more information as it becomes available.
