Man pleads guilty in fatal shooting on Vermillion Bluffs Drive

The man who was arrested in May 2017 for fatally shooting his mother’s boyfriend in northeast Colorado Springs pleaded guilty to manslaughter Wednesday morning.

Police say Grant Motsinger shot Kirk Maroo in a home on Vermillion Bluffs Drive after an argument between Maroo and Motsinger’s mother.

Court documents say the two men started fighting, then Motsinger got a .45-caliber handgun, went back downstairs, and shot Maroo. Maroo later died at Penrose Hospital.

Motsinger was initially charged with second-degree murder. Wednesday, the 4th Judicial District Attorney’s Office said Motsinger entered his plea for manslaughter, which is a class-four felony. He will be sentenced at 10 a.m. on Sept. 14.