WESTMINSTER, Colo. — No charges will be filed in connection with a fatal stabbing at Westminster hotel late last month.
Officers responded around 9:10 a.m. on June 29 to a report of a possible stabbing at the Super 8 Hotel located in the 12000 block of Melody Drive.
When officers arrived, they found a man, later identified as 23-year-old Angelo Nicholas Rodriguez, with a stab wound to the chest. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The suspect left the scene and was arrested on July 3 in Denver on suspicion of second-degree murder. However, a spokesman for the 17th Judicial District Attorney's Office said they declined to file charges "due to an inability to disprove self-defense at trial."
The criminal case is now closed.
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From there, an awards committee reviews the information provided and, if the information leads to an arrest, the tipster will be notified. Rewards can be collected using the code numbers received when the tip was originally submitted.
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