Family and friends are demanding justice after a 17-year-old was found dead in a Denver alley this weekend. “She was just a young, beautiful lady trying to figure out her place in this world and she was just so young still,” a friend of the victim said.
DENVER, Colo. — Few words can describe the pain that the family of Jasmine Rivas Hernandez is living through.On Saturday afternoon, the Denver Police Department said it received a report of a woman found dead in an alley near the corner of E. Colfax Avenue and Quebec Street. DPD said it is investigating her death as a homicide. She was later identified as Jasmine, 17.
Friends who gathered at the site where Jasmine was found said she was a loving sibling and had goals to continue school. Her grandmother, Ernestina Maltos, said she last spoke with Jasmine one week ago and now is heartbroken she’ll never be able to again.Robbed of a future, her family members want to see justice.
No other details have been released on Jasmine's cause of death. Her family, left to pick up the pieces, must now pay for funeral expenses.
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