In July, police released surveillance video showing a man in a red bandanna storming into the National Jewelry Buyers store on Coors before he demanded money, and shoot and killed the clerk, Richard Glass.
Police now believe 24-year-old Manuel Gardner is the one who did it. In court today, the state said even though this was his first felony charge, the defendant is dangerous. As a result, the judge kept him in jail on a one million dollar cash bond.
After the shooting, police released information that the suspect was likely driving a white Crown Victoria. Two weeks later a woman called police about a car like that one looking suspicious in her neighborhood.
They showed her a frame of the surveillance video. In her words, she said she’d seen his “bird legs” climbing into that car. That gave police a lead. They went to the car and saw a pay stub in the windshield with Gardner’s name on it.
A criminal complaint says two weeks later, someone who knew Gardner called them. He said Gardner confessed to him and knew details about the murder police hadn’t released. That gave police enough for an arrest warrant for Gardner.
The National Jewelry Buyers owner, who knew the victim well, wasn’t ready to speak on camera – but says he’s relieved to hear the news, and hopes police got the right guy.
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