'Had issues with him': Disgruntled co-worker went to colleague's home after being fired to confront him and shot the man's wife dead after she came to the front door first

A Colorado antheral who went to his erstwhile co-worker's location to face him and shot his woman dormant volition walk decades successful prison.

Ernest Cunningham, 53, was found guilty successful December 2025 of second-degree murder successful transportation with the fatal shooting of 23-year-old Kelsey Roberts-Gariety. On June 29, 2024, Cunningham went to the flat successful Denver wherever Roberts-Gariety lived with her husband, who worked with Cunningham until the second antheral was fired. Cunningham went to confront the young woman's husband, but erstwhile she opened the doorway instead, helium gunned her down.

According to an apprehension affidavit obtained by The Denver Post, Roberts-Gariety's hubby told constabulary after his wife's death that Cunningham "knew wherever they lived and had issues with him." The hubby told constabulary that Cunningham did drugs portion helium was connected the job. After Cunningham was fired, helium turned his choler toward Roberts-Gariety's hubby and repeatedly called and threatened him.

Police said different nonmigratory successful the flat gathering wherever Roberts-Gariety and her hubby lived heard a gunshot connected the day of the execution and the dependable of idiosyncratic moving away. A 2nd nonmigratory took a video of Cunningham leaving the gathering successful his car, which constabulary were capable to usage to way him down and apprehension him hours later. Surveillance video besides caught Cunningham's car leaving the gathering moments aft the shooting.

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Cunningham, who was retired connected parole aft serving clip for a burglary condemnation erstwhile helium murdered Roberts-Gariety, was sentenced connected Feb. 27 to 42 years successful prison. Roberts-Gariety's sister, Kylie Al-Nubu'at, told section NBC affiliate KUSA that she knew thing much than 20 years was "basically a beingness sentence" for Cunningham. She added, "He took my sister's life. We're serving a beingness condemnation of grief, truthful present I consciousness similar justness has been served."