3rd Person Arrested In Edgewater Takeout Shooting of Lakewood Man

EDGEWATER, CO -- A third suspect in the fatal shooting of a Lakewood man as he walked into a restaurant to pick up dinner has been arrested, Edgewater police said.

Devon Drizzt Howard, 20, was arrested in Centennial around 4:10 p.m. Tuesday.

Andrew Jenicek, 27, was shot in a parking lot around 8:30 p.m. April 5 as he came to pick up food from a restaurant in a strip mall in the 2000 block of Sheridan Boulevard.

An arrest affidavit said that Howard and accomplices Caleb Vigil and Alicia Valdez, both 19, set out to rob a random person with a gun they had recently acquired. Jenicek threw his wallet and cell phone to the ground, and tried to grab the gun, held by Vigil, the affidavit said. Vigil shot him in the chest and the three fled in a silver Mitsubishi Eclipse, registered to Valdez and captured on surveillance video.

On April 8, the three suspects and a fourth person were driving in the Mitsubishi when they were pulled over for a minor traffic violation.

Vigil and Valdez were taken into custody, but Howard remained at large.

Edgewater Police Chief John Mackey thanked the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Department, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation and Colorado US Marshals Fugitive Task Force for help in Howard's arrest.

He will be held in Jefferson County Jail until charges can be brought against him, a statement said.

A GofundMe site was posted by family friends raising money for Andrew's funeral. Andrew 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."

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