Teen who killed 16-year-old at Denver Skatepark in 2022 sentenced to 7 years in juvenile corrections

The young man who shot and killed 16 year-old Juan Herrera-Lozano at Denver Skatepark in 2022 was charged as an adult, but he will not go to prison at this time. Instead, he will go into Colorado's juvenile corrections system with a suspended prison sentence. Owen Ruiz, now 18, was sentenced to 7 years in the Colorado Youth Offender System by a judge on Monday, with a suspended sentence of 32 years in the Colorado Department of Corrections. In January, Ruiz pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for killing Herrera-Lozano. "My...