DENVER — A 5th grade student at Traylor Academy and her parents were killed in a shooting at their southwest Denver home Thursday night, according to the Denver Police Department. A juvenile boy escaped the home unharmed.
"It's just senseless, you had a family, basically ... it's just tragic, it was terrible," said DPD's Joseph Montoya.
A fourth adult was also injured, but not by gunfire, police said.
Officers responded to the 3000 block of South Golden Way just after 9:30 p.m. Thursday in the Bear Valley neighborhood just west of Sheridan Boulevard and north of Highway 285.
One woman was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. The girl and a man were taken to nearby hospitals where they later died, according to police.
"In all my time as a police officer, this is one of the most emotional cases that I've ever dealt with," Montoya said. "I'm not just talking about myself, everybody that was involved in this, from the victims' advocates to the hospital workers, were shaken by this incident."
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Bustaman Kartabrata, 59, was located and arrested in northeast Denver. He's being held for investigation of three counts of first-degree murder and felony menacing.
He was "very well acquainted" with the family, according to police. They're still trying to determine his exact relationship to the victims, including the possibility that he's related in some way to them.
"We do not know at this time what the exact motive was. It was some sort of conflict," Montoya said.
5th grade girl, parents killed in Denver shooting
All three victims were members of the same family, police said. A juvenile boy escaped the home unharmed.
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