A year-old boy has been charged as an adult in connection with the shooting death of a year-old. Flowers, stuffed animals, candles, and a birthday balloon now sit outside Lily Silva-Lopez's home after she was killed on June Cardenas tells CBS Colorado her camera caught the defendant, now known as year-old Jovanni Sirio- Cardona running down the bike path into the trailer park home. He then forced himself into the young girl's home through her window, according to the affidavit obtained by CBS News Colorado.
Silva-Lopez's year-old brother had told her that the teen had broken into the home. She told her brother to run and that is when he then shot her several times before fleeing the scene. Court documents show the year-old had been in a relationship with the year-old for about six months.
Things took a turn when she tried ending the relationship just four weeks before the shooting. Safehouse Denver has a youth program where it's offering community education to schools, which is having to do more often now with youth domestic violence on the rise.
This is not the first time an incident like this has happened between the two. Documents show a week prior to the shooting police responded to the young girl's home on reports that the year-old boy had punched her in the face and hurt her arms. According to records, when police officers responded to Sirio-Cardona's home, his grandma asked why they were there, he then responded, "he did what he had to do and shot someone.
Jovanni Sirio-Cardona has been charged with murder in the first-degree, a class 1 felony, murder in the second-degree, felony murder, a class 2 felony, first-degree burglary, a class three felony, aggravated robbery, a class 3 felony and possession of a handgun by a juvenile, a class 2 misdemeanor.
