On a Saturday night two years ago, a 17-year-old girl tried to get into a Denver bar with a fake driver’s license.

In line with other would-be patrons outside the Lower Downtown spot, she claimed to be a 25-year-old woman named Shaelene. But the bouncer wasn’t buying it. He kept the girl’s fake ID and told her she wasn’t getting in.

As the girl walked away, she pulled a gun from her jacket and fired back at the crowd outside the bar. Five people were shot; they all survived. Surveillance footage showed the girl’s face as she waited in line, and captured her pulling out the gun and firing.

But Denver police still needed to figure out who she was. They found the man she’d been in line with; he claimed they’d just met and that he’d been hoping for a one-night stand. Two days after the sh

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