AURORA, Colo. — An Arapahoe County judge on Tuesday sentenced a man to 85 years in the Department of Corrections for his role in a series of crimes in 2021 that left one man dead in Aurora.
Last month, Andrew Jacobs pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree murder, two counts of aggravated robbery, and three violent crime sentence enhancers, according to court documents. Sixty other charges were dismissed as part of the plea agreement.
>The video above is a prior report about the case.
Jacobs was given a 48-year sentence for the second-degree murder charge and 18 years for one robbery charge and 19 for the other. That brings the total to 85 years. He was given credit for the 735 days he's already spent in jail.
According to Aurora Police, Jacobs shot and killed Carlos Albarracin while he was sitting in his pickup truck at the Florida Station Apartments in Aurora on Nov. 10, 2021. Albarracin's then 6-year-old son was also in the truck at the time, but was able to get out unharmed before Jacobs left in it.
The family had moved to the United States from Colombia just a few months prior to the shooting.
"We are forever changed and saddened by the loss of our beloved Carlos Julio. He came to this country to provide a better life and future for his family, and that future was robbed from us by Andrew Jacobs," his family said in a statement provided by a family friend.
"After two years, we still feel the pain of the day of the murder. Emmanuel, now 8-years old, will never again have the love, support, and protection of his father. We also feel sorry for the family of Andrew Jacobs, especially his children, who will also feel his absence because of his actions."
Albarracin was killed as part of an hourlong string of crimes that also included seven other carjackings and two home invasions, police said at the time.
Jacobs was taken into custody after crashing two stolen cars about an hour after the crimes started, police said at the time. He suffered serious injuries in the crashes.
According to an arrest affidavit, Jacobs was interviewed the next day at the hospital. When a detective told him they were investigating a series of incidents from the day before, Jacobs immediately said he "had been high" and "was running from us" and running from "them," the affidavit said.
When the detective told him he was in custody on suspicion of first-degree murder, he asked if he had killed someone, according to the affidavit, because he "did not recall the day before at all."
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