Woman Convicted Of Murder In Fatal Edgewater Shooting

EDGEWATER, CO — A 21-year-old woman has been convicted of first-degree murder in the 2018 shooting death of 27-year-old Andrew Jenicek. Two men were also found guilty of murder earlier this year in his death.

A Jefferson County jury found Alicia Elena Valdez guilty Thursday.

Valdez, Caleb Joseph Vigil and Devon Drizzt Howard got a hold of a gun and planned to use it to rob people, prosecutors said.

Jenicek was shot in a parking lot around 8:30 p.m. last April while he came to pick up food from a restaurant in a strip mall in the 2000 block of Sheridan Boulevard in Edgewater.

Vigil tried to rob Jenicek and shot him in the chest. Vigil, Howard and Valdez then escaped in her Mitsubishi, which ran over Jenicek's body as he lay in the parking lot. He died on the scene. The car was captured on surveillance video.

Vigil and Howard continued on a crime spree, firing shots at a woman to intimidate her from testifying in another case and then committing an armed robbery at a Lakewood cell phone store on April 6, robbing the clerk and customers at gun point, prosecutors said.

Howard and Vigil were tried and sentenced earlier this year. Valdez's sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 23.

Jenicek's family said he grew up in Littleton and graduated from D'Evelyn High School, in the Class of 2008. "He had aspirations to pursue a career in finance," a GoFundMe site posted by friends of the family said.

Jean Lotus contributed to this report.

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