The fatal shooting of an Arvada Police officer this month started with a custody dispute between the suspect and the mother of his children that led to a family fight in the street outside the suspect's apartment, according to the arrest affidavit in the case.
According to the affidavit, the suspect, Sonny Almanza, 31, said that he didn't know there were police officers present when he started shooting in the early hours of Sept. 11 on West 51st Avenue near the intersection with Marshall Street.
Almanza is charged in the murder of Arvada Police Officer Dillon Vakoff, 27, and is also accused of injuring a woman in the same incident.
On Monday Jefferson County District Court released the arrest affidavit for Almanza, which describes the Arvada Police Department's investigation into the events that happened on the night Vakoff was shot and killed.
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