LOVELAND, Colo. — Two people have been sentenced after pleading guilty to attempted murder charges in connection with a 2023 shooting that injured one person.
Aaron Lambertus, 28, and Ayla Osterloth, 19, were both charged in connection with the shooting, which happened the night of Aug. 9, 2023 in the parking lot of a Safeway on North Cleveland Avenue in Loveland. Prosecutors said two victims were sleeping on the ground and a third was nearby when they were shot at by someone in an SUV. One of the victims was injured in the shooting, prosecutors said.
The two suspects were arrested later that week in Montana.
Lambertus pleaded guilty in September to one count of attempted first-degree murder. He was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison.
Prosecutors said Osterloth was the driver of the SUV, and Lambertus was the shooter. According to prosecutors, Lambertus told police that he wanted to shoot someone “who no one would really care about” and who he believed “wasn’t a contributing member to society.”
Osterloth pleaded guilty in June to one count of attempted second-degree murder. She was sentenced in September to four years in the Youth Offender System. She was also given an eight-year suspended sentence in the Department of Corrections, which she will only have to serve if she does not successfully complete her Youth Offender System sentence.
