DENVER ( KDVR ) — A man admitted to investigators that he fired the shot that killed a mother who was in her home in Berthoud on April 28, and said he accidentally discharged the gun, according to an affidavit.
FOX31 obtained the affidavit for the warrantless arrest of 20-year-old Ebenezer Worku, revealing new details about what led to the shooting that killed 49-year-old Jennifer James.
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Woman shot dead in Berthoud
James was in her home on 1st Street just north of Mountain Avenue in Berthoud on Monday, April 28, around 11:20 p.m., when a bullet came through a window and struck her in the upper arm and traveled through her chest.
According to the affidavit, the 911 caller reported that she said she was shot before she collapsed and stopped breathing. First responders rendered aid but she was pronounced dead on the scene…