AURORA, Colo. — A 17-year-old girl is charged as an adult with 29 counts related to a deadly shooting at an Aurora park last month that killed 14-year-old Kamiaya Cleveland and injured two other people.
Police said the shooting happened around 9:15 p.m. July 6, after a fight broke out during a party at Highlands Hollow Park on South Uravan Street. Three victims, a 15-year-old girl and two 14-year-old girls, were taken to the hospital. Kamiaya died shortly after arriving at the hospital.
Police said Tuesday that the girl, identified as Jordyn Riley was arrested Friday in connection with the shooting. She's being charged with 29 counts in Arapahoe County District Court. They include the following:
- 1 count first-degree murder - extreme indifference
- 10 counts of attempted first-degree murder - extreme indifference
- 2 counts of first-degree assault - extreme indifference
- 8 counts of attempted first-degree assault - extreme indifference
- 1 count felony menacing- real or simulated weapon
- 1 count of illegal discharge of a firearm
- 1 count of tampering with physical evidence
- 1 count of possession of a handgun by a juvenile
- 4 sentence enhancers
She's next due in court on Sept. 30.
Police said Riley was in custody in another jurisdiction for an unrelated case when investigators contacted her last week. Online court records indicate Riley has three pending cases in Denver, but details about those case are not available because they all remain in juvenile court.
Police said they are not looking for any other suspects right now, but they continue to investigate the case.
Kamiaya's family told 9NEWS she was sitting in the backseat of a friend's car when she was shot and killed.
She would have turned 15 just weeks later.
"She was supposed to be 15. That was the hardest day thus far [for] having a birthday party that she wasn’t at," her mom, Krystal Cleveland, told 9NEWS earlier this month.
"That was really hard because her little sister blew out her candles and it’s like, she should have been here to blow out her candles," said Kandice Cleveland, Kamiaya's aunt. "It’s just because of a senseless act of violence that she couldn’t do it."
The family described her as the kind of teenager who would "light up a room." She loved to cook meals for her family and never left the house without saying, "I love you."
"For me, it’s her dances. I love her dances. She had a dance for everything," said Kayla Cleveland, Kamiaya's aunt. "That's my memory etched on my heart."