DENVER — Sol Tribe Tattoo & Piercing in Denver closed its doors for the final time Tuesday, roughly 2.5 years after its owner and jewelry manager were killed in a shooting spree.
On Dec. 27, 2021, a gunman killed five people and injured three others , including a police officer , in a shooting spree that spanned across Denver and ended in Lakewood. Sol Tribe owner Alicia Cardenas, 44, and jewelry manager Alyssa Gunn-Maldonado, 35, were the first two people killed in the string of shootings.
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Alfredo Cardenas said his daughter owned her first tattoo shop when she was 19 years old and then moved into the new space, where she had worked for 15 to 20 years. It has a “tremendous reputation,” he said.
She was also a mural artist, he said, and there are multiple art murals around town with her name on them.
“She was a real leader in her community. A lot of people look to her for advice and information about tattooing and a lot about the hygiene of tattooing and she kind of pioneered that,” Alfredo Cardenas said. “But she had friends all over the world. She literally has gone all over the world, well, over the oceans anyway, giving workshops on tattoo hygiene and that sort of stuff. She will be very sorely missed.”