UPDATE | Feb. 5 — The 17th Judicial District Attorney's Office has filed multiple charges against 19-year-old Casandra Rocha-Martinez. That includes the following charges:
- First-degree attempted murder (7 counts)
- First-degree assault (3 counts)
- Illegal discharge of a firearm
- Vehicular eluding
- Leaving the scene of a crash
- Vehicular assault
- Vehicular assault
- Second-degree motor vehicle theft
- Large-capacity magazine prohibited/during crime
- Crime of violence (sentence enhancer) (4 counts)
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BRIGHTON, Colo. — A teenage girl suspected of a house party shooting that wounded three people in Brighton was arrested following a vehicle crash early Saturday morning, according to the Brighton Police Department.
The shooting occurred around 12:26 a.m. at a house in the area of E. Bridge Street and S. 8th Avenue, leaving two women in critical but stable condition and an 18-year-old man wounded but who has since been released from the hospital.
Investigators say a verbal altercation escalated when a suspect opened fire toward the home and people in the front yard, then fled and later crashed a vehicle.
Casandra Rocha-Martinez, 19, was taken into custody after a passenger was ejected and injured in the crash.
Bullets from the shooting also struck a School District 27j building across the street from the home.
Rocha-Martinez was booked into Adams County Jail on numerous charges, including attempted first-degree murder and vehicular assault.
Police say the incident appears isolated and are asking anyone with information to contact the department’s tip line at 303-655-8740.
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