DENVER — A defendant who was 14 years old when he was charged, along with a co-defendant, of shooting and killing a woman after a fender bender in Denver has been convicted of murder.
On Friday afternoon, the Denver District Attorney’s Office announced that Remi Cordova was convicted by a jury of first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder.
On Feb. 20, 2021, Pamela Cabriales, 32, was driving westbound on W. Colfax Avenue near Interstate 25 when she was involved in a fender bender crash with Cordova and his co-defendant Neshan Johnson, who was 18 at the time and driving a Honda. The district attorney’s office said Johnson “acted as the get-away driver” while Cordova, who was in the front passenger seat, got out of the car and shot Cabriales with a high-powered assault rifle after the minor crash.
The defendants then fled from the scene.
Cabriales died of her injuries.
“We are all just devastated,” Mayra Zambrano, a longtime friend, told Denver7 in February 2021 . “She was such a great person that we can’t see our lives without her.”