A man was found guilty on Thursday for the murder of four people at his ex-girlfriend's home in suburban Denver in 2022.
Joseph Mario Castorena, 22, gunned down his victims just a week after a court order was granted to keep him away from his ex-girlfriend, Jessica Serrano. Castorena was convicted of four counts of first-degree murder for killing three relatives of Serrano and a man who rented an RV on the family's property in Aurora on Oct. 30, 2022, according to prosecutors.
He was also found guilty of one count of attempted murder . Serrano, who was unharmed, shares two children with Castorena. The kids were out-of-state with family when the shooting occurred, as per police reports.
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Castorena was apprehended over a month after the shooting in Mexico and extradited back to Colorado.
Prosecutors claim that Castorena broke into the house and waited inside with a gun until the family members returned. When Serrano arrived around 2 am, she noticed Castorena's keys in her bedroom and called the police, suspecting her ex-boyfriend was in the house and he wasn't supposed to be there. Shots were fired while she was on the phone with dispatchers, say prosecutors.
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A week prior to the shooting, Serrano had sought a court protective order, alleging that Castorena had pointed a gun at her and threatened to kill her. She also claimed he held her in his car and wouldn't let her go home.
Castorena is facing a mandatory life sentence for each of his four first-degree murder convictions. His sentencing is scheduled for September 3.
Elsewhere in Colorado, a dentist accused of killing his wife by poisoning her protein shakes asked a jail inmate to plant letters for him to make it look like his wife was suicidal.
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According to police, James Craig asked his fellow inmate to place letters in Craig's garage, and truck at home. The inmate believed that the letters were written by Craig, but meant to look like his wife, Angela Craig, had written them. Aurora police detective Bobbi Olsen, the lead detective, testified on Wednesday at a court hearing on the new allegation against the Colorado dentist.
It comes as 43-year-old Angela Craig died in March 2023 from cyanide and tetrahydrozoline poisoning. She was a mother-of-six who was married to her husband for 23 years.
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