DENVER — A man was sentenced Tuesday to 40 years in prison in connection with a murder at west Denver gas station in 2024.

Ronnie Hernandez, 18, was sentenced by a judge Tuesday after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in connection with the crime.

Hernandez, who was 16 years old at the time, was accused of shooting two people while the victims sat in a parked car at a gas station on Sheridan Boulevard near the intersection with W. 5th Avenue on the evening of June 6 .

Manuel C. Luque Quintana, 29, died in the shooting.

A woman was shot and walked away from the area but was later spotted by police and transported to the hospital with critical injuries.

Police said Hernandez and another suspect, 31-year-old Simon Eugene Elijah Gurule, drove up to the scene, where one of them got

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