GLENDALE, Colo. (KDVR) — The best friend of a 20-year-old man who was fatally shot inside his Glendale apartment is speaking out for the first time.
Diego Torres was there, trying to protect his friend as those shots were fired.
“I want justice for my friend, he didn’t deserve to go like this,” said Torres.
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He spent two weeks at Denver Health after being shot 10 times in the early morning hours of April 5.
He was released on his birthday — April 16 — but he is still left with questions about why someone would do this.
“It has been a process, to be honest, to be waking up every day next to your friend and then he’s not here no more,” said Torres.
It’s hard for him to accept the fact his best friend since high school and roommate Gianni Fernandez is gone.
“It just feels strange it doesn’t feel right,” he said.
Police say on April 5 around 2:30 in the morning 21-year-old Sarah Sandoval, a woman Gianni met on Instagram two months earlier, was invited to his Urban Phenix apartment.