Police in Aurora have arrested a suspect they believe went on a crime spree that resulted in the deaths of three people. Ricky Lee Roybal-Smith has been accused of stabbing and killing two people in Aurora, accused in a DUI/hit-and-run involving at least two pedestrians in two separate incidents and accused of murdering his cellmate at the Denver Jail.
On Wednesday afternoon, Aurora police detectives obtained an arrest warrant for Roybal-Smith, 38, of Aurora on first-degree murder charges. Roybal-Smith was in custody in Denver on unrelated charges at the time.
The warrant and charges stem from Sunday when Aurora police homicide detectives responded to two separate deadly stabbing scenes in northwest Aurora.
The first was reported about 1:45 p.m. on Sunday, June 29, in the 1500 block of Moline Street after receiving a report of an unresponsive male on the sidewalk. When officers arrived, they found the man suffering from apparent stab wounds. Despite life-saving measures, the man died at the scene…