Jax Gratton’s friends ask for independent task force to look into her death

DENVER — Friends of Jax Gratton, the Denver hairstylist whose body was discovered in a Lakewood alley nearly two months after she was first reported missing, gathered outside the Ralph L. Carr Judicial building in downtown Denver calling for the creation of an independent oversight task force to look into the handling of her death investigation.

“Jax wasn’t like most people that you would meet nowadays, like her heart was truly pure. She cared about everybody,” said Brandy Carey, a friend of Gratton who was part of the demonstration Thursday. “It didn’t matter to how long she knew you, if she just met you, she held a space in her heart for you.”

Carey told Denver7 she knew Gratton through work, as she is one of the managers with the salon suite concept where Gratton ran her hair styling business…

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