A Denver man who used an AK-47 to kill a woman and wound a man while the couple was walking their dog near Coors Field was found guilty of first-degree murder Thursday.
Michael Close, 38, knew what he was doing when he killed Isabella Thallas, 21, and twice shot her boyfriend, Darian Simon, on June 10, 2020, as they encouraged their dog to defecate outside Close’s apartment near Coors Field, the jury concluded.The jury also convicted him of an additional count of first-degree murder in connection with Thallas’ death, two counts of attempted murder and two counts of assault.
Close sat with his head bowed and cried while the verdict was read. A sheriff’s deputy handcuffed him after the jury left the courtroom.Members of Thallas’ family also cried as they heard the verdict. Ana Thallas, Isabella’s mother, said Thursday that she felt numb. “We’ve been waiting 2½ years for this day and what happened in there just went by… almost as fast as my daughter was slaughtered,” she said through tears, standing outside the courtroom. “And our lives were changed forever.”
The jury deliberated for a few hours Wednesday afternoon and into Thursday before one juror was excused and an alternate juror seated. Deliberations then started over at about 11:15 a.m Thursday and ended around 2 p.m. Jurors rejected defense attorneys’ argument that Close was criminally insane at the time of the unprovoked attack.before he carried out the shooting, and she pointed to his traumatic and abusive childhood, a string of recent job losses, a breakup and the COVID-19 pandemic as contributing to his poor mental health at the time.
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