2 Found Guilty In Edgewater Takeout Murder

GOLDEN, CO – Two men were found guilty last week in the robbery and shooting death of a Lakewood man who was picking up food at an Edgewater restaurant.

A Jefferson County District Court jury found Caleb Joseph Vigil, 20, and Devon Drizzt Howard, 21, guilty of multiple counts including first-degree murder in the death of 27-year-old Andrew Jenicek.

On April 5, 2018, Jenicek was killed during a botched robbery as he walked back to his car after picking up barbecue for dinner in a strip mall restaurant at 29th and Sheridan Boulevard.

The jury heard how Vigil attempted to rob Jenicek and shot him at close range in the chest. Vigil, Howard and a woman, Alicia Valdez, 19, escaped in a Mitsubishi which ran over Jenicek's body as he lay in the parking lot. He died on the scene. The car was captured on surveillance video.

Vigil and Howard continued on a crime spree, firing shots at a woman to intimidate her from testifying in another case and then committing an armed robbery at a Lakewood cell phone store on April 6, robbing the clerk and customers at gun point, prosecutors said.

The two were taken into custody shortly thereafter.

The jury deliberated two-and-a-half days and then found the pair guilty of 16 counts, including murder, robbery and intimidation of a witness.

Victim Andrew Jenicek's family said he grew up in Littleton and graduated from D'Evelyn High School, in the Class of 2008. "He had aspirations to pursue a career in finance," a GoFundMe site posted by friends of the family said.

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