The man convicted of killing a Denver police officer and shooting another nearly 20 years ago was denied admission to an early parole program.
“It’s a good day,” former Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey told The Denver Gazette Tuesday after hearing that Raul Gomez-Garcia was denied admission to the Colorado’s Department of Corrections Program for Juvenile Offenders.
Gomez-Garcia — then a 21-year-old immigrant from Mexico unlawfully staying in the U.S. — shot and killed Donald “Donnie” Young on Mother’s Day weekend in 2005. Young was a 12-year veteran of the Denver Police Department. Before the shooting, Gomez-Garcia had been thrown out of a baptismal party because he was uninvited…