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Police ID Suspect In Murder At Apartment Complex

THORNTON, Colo. (CBS4) - After hours of searching a Thornton apartment complex for two homicide suspects, police took a man and a woman into custody Monday morning, but they were released with no charges.

The pair were handcuffed by members of a SWAT team and taken into custody without incident, but police released them and later arrested Jaron Trujillo, 27, of Denver in connection with the homicide.

Police initially responded to the Renaissance apartment building's parking lot at 368 East 88th Avenue on a report of a man shot and killed at 3:41 a.m.

"I heard like, four to five gunshots early in the morning, woke me up, just woke me up out of the blue and then we were just laying down and then all of a sudden there were cop cars and cops trying to get people out of the apartment," said one neighbor.

Several witnesses told police they saw a man and woman running from the scene back into one of the apartments.

Authorities evacuated the building while they narrowed in on an apartment they believed the two were hiding in.

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Just after 7 a.m., police officers could be seen walking out a woman in a black shirt and a man in a red shirt.

Police decided to use robots to determine whether anyone else was inside the apartment where the homicide occurred.

Officers said there was the possibility that people with guns may be hiding in the apartment hours after the suspects were taken into custody.

Tactical teams remained on the scene at noon on Monday with guns drawn. Two were stationed on the roof of a neighboring apartment building.

Police have not released the identity of the victim. The investigation is ongoing.

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