Crime & Safety
Woman Shot In Littleton Dies, Man Charged With Murder
Andrew O'John, 20, was arrested last week in connection with the shooting of Keleshia Nash, 22, who later died of her injuries.
CENTENNIAL, CO – A man accused of shooting a woman at a Littleton apartment complex last week was charged with first-degree murder and other charges after the woman died.
Andrew O'John, 20, was charged in Arapahoe County Court Tuesday with first-degree murder and two sentence enhancements of "crimes of violence" including one with a deadly weapon.
On Sept. 26, around 11:20 p.m. Littleton police were summoned to an apartment building in the 5500 block of South Elati Street after a report of shots fired and an injured woman outside the building, an arrest affidavit said. Officers found Keleshia Nash, 22, slumped outside the building with what appeared to be gunshot wounds to her neck. She was taken to Swedish Medical Center, where she later died of her injuries on Sept. 28.
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Police searched the area and found O'John, covered with blood on the second floor, the arrest affidavit said. Inside a mailbox, officers found a Glock model 42 .380 caliber handgun with a spent cartridge "jammed in the slide of the gun."
Neighbors told police they heard a gunshot and screaming and saw O'John dragging Nash out of the apartment, picking her up and "trying to get her awake," the affidavit said. As police arrived, a witness told police O'John said "I'm sorry baby" and ran down stairs.
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O'John told police he and Nash were living together at her apartment and had an argument. Nash showed O'John a picture of an old boyfriend on her phone, he told them. O'John then claimed another man showed up at the apartment and called Nash a "whore."
He told police Nash pulled out a gun she had taken from her car earlier. O'John told police they struggled with the gun and it accidentally went off, shooting Nash in the neck. He said he “must have gotten his finger in the trigger guard of the gun and pulled the trigger,” the affidavit said. He told police he hid the gun in the mailbox because he didn't want to be killed by police. Police found no sign of another man at the scene.
O'John is being held in the Arapahoe County Jail without bail.
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