DENVER — A teenager has pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder in connection with two murders that took place just days apart in 2023.
Dhaevontae Rogers-Broadus, 18, has been behind bars since he turned himself in to Aurora Police in October 2023 after a shooting at Southlands Mall that killed a 15-year-old. In April 2024, prosecutors charged Rogers-Broadus in a carjacking that took the life of a 23-year-old man who had come to the United States from Iraq less than a year before his death.
Although Rogers-Broadus was charged in connection with the deadly carjacking months after he turned himself in for the shopping center shooting, the carjacking happened first, just 11 days prior…