Our card this week is K-Rue Lolo, the Queen of Hearts from Colorado.

As I'm sure you've already noticed, this is the second episode we're releasing today.

It's a bonus mini episode, a little shorter than a normal one, because there isn't a ton

of information, but we knew that this was a case that still had to be told.

Cases like this are often hard for us to tell, because there's not always a lot to the

investigation once police realize the victim wasn't the intended target.

But K-Rue deserves to have his story told just as much as any of the other cases that

you've listened to me tell, because he was a kindhearted, family-oriented 24-year-old,

who was visiting relatives in Denver, Colorado, when he was brutally gunned down for seemingly

no reason.

For more than a decade, K-Rue's friends and family have waited in agony for answers,

and for justice.

I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is The Deck.

Around 9pm on October 16, 2009, Detective Mark Criter with the Denver Police Department

was relaxing after a long week, when he got a call that there had been a shooting at

Garden Court Apartments, a large apartment complex on Denver's east side.

A young man had been shot multiple times and was rushed to the hospital where he was

pronounced dead.

Detective Criter was told that the scene at the apartment complex was already swarming

with officers, paramedics, firefighters, and night shift detectives.

So, as lead investigator, he decided his energy was best spent conducting interviews with potential

witnesses.

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