 Thank you for being here today. My name is Joe Montoya, J-O-E-M-O-N-T-O-Y-A. I'm the division chief investigations for the Denver Police Department. I want to start with listing some of the people in attendance today and then we'll go through a series of speakers to kind of break down why we're here. We have Executive Director of Safety, Murphy Robinson, Chief of Police, Paul Payson, Chief of the Denver Fire Department, Todd Bauer, we have Acting ASAC of ATF, Mr. Pete Marini, have Dr. Carol Watkins. She's the Executive Director of the Muslim Family Services of Colorado and in my commentary I'll get into what what they have done for us and to assist with this. We are expecting Papadia. He's the African leadership, he's with the African leadership and he's the chosen speaker for the family and for the Senegalese community. And we're also expecting Council General from the Republican of Senegal to be with us today. And we also have Officer Simeon Koro. Also, I will touch on what his participation is with this investigation. And then we have our investigative team in the back that is at the forefront of this of this investigation. So with that being said, I'm going to hand the mic over to Executive Director of Safety, Murphy Robinson. Good afternoon everyone. On behalf of Mayor Michael B. Hancock in the Department of Safety, I want to thank you all for being here to discuss this tragic case and how you can help us with this investigation. I want to acknowledge the partnership that is being experienced. Although tragic, I believe that the partnership between our agencies and the federal government, both police, fire, the ATF and everyone that's been a part of this, really highlights why the Public Safety Department is so effective and really highlights how we can bring the people that did this to justice. Thanks to the Senegalese President, President Saul for sending his thoughts and prayers to the family and the Denver community. And foremost, I want to extend my condolences to the D.O.L. family and the Senegalese community. I can't imagine the pain that you're feeling from such a tragic and violent loss. But I want you to know that the Denver family is with you. I want you to know that we're going to work hard to find out who committed this violent act. But we need your help. And we want our Denver community to also come together in partnership. And I'm going to turn it back over to Chief Montoya to discuss the details about how you can help us bring to whoever is responsible for this to justice. And I want to extend my apologies to Mr. Mike Mills, the President of Crime Stoppers, who is the primary reason we're here today. So I obviously look to the left more than I look to the right. So I apologize for that. So I'm going to quickly touch on the crime. I ask that we hold questions until the end. I will return to the podium if you have any questions about that. We responded the early, early morning on Wednesday to assist the fire department with a fire. At that time, that was the reason for our response. I quickly determined that there was individuals that perished in the fire to the count of five as far as we could tell that day was three adults and two children. Because early on in the investigation, we determined that this fire was intentionally set. It was then converted into a homicide investigation. First and foremost, I want to thank the community, the Senegalese community for their support at the scene. They showed up in mass and they were there and they were integral part of helping the immediate family members through that process because it was very difficult. And they've been by their sides ever since. I want to thank our support in the investigation. Fire from the front end has been there by our sides. And we quickly turned to the ATF for their assistance because one of the federal responsibilities at ATF is ARSEN investigation. So they brought their expertise and resources to help us immediately and they've been very valuable in helping us quickly determine what potentially might have happened there and helping us gather as much evidence as possible. And then our partners, our friends, crime stoppers who are always there for us right on the front end of these things. They help us with monetary support. They help us get this information out and they help us retrieve the information that comes back as a result. I want to say there is a substantial monetary reward in this and part of it is through crime stoppers and part of it is through the financial assistance. And that's where the contributions from the ATF as well puts us at an amount of $14,000 on this crime stoppers reward. I want to say that there could be additional additions to this crime stoppers bulletin as we develop information that can be crucial in solving this crime. When we feel it's appropriate to share with the community, we will be pushing it out in connection with this original crime stoppers bulletin. As well as any additional monetary donations that go towards the reward from the community, we will continue to add to that as they come in. Beyond the money, what I'm asking for is a heartfelt plea. I want people to look into their hearts. I want them to see the picture of this family and understand that this was a family that was thriving. They were headed the right direction. This Mr. Joel, I believe they called him Gibi, was his name to his friends and family. He was doing all the things he needed to do to provide his family with an amazing life in America. And that was all cut short on that day. So I ask if you have any information on this crime, we ask that you look into your hearts and do the right thing. Do it for the right reasons. Because we need to find these individuals or individual and we have to be able to hold them accountable for what they did on that day. We owe this to that family. We owe this to the Senegalese community and we own it to the country of Senegal. So with that said, I'm going to hand it over to the President of Crime Stoppers, Mr. Mike Mills. Thank you all for including me today. My family would like to share our condolences and prayers with the entire Joel family and their many friends here and in Senegal. I would also like to thank the Denver Police Department, Denver Fire Department, the ATF, the dedicated professionals of detectives for their hard work, their commitment and partnership over the years with Metro Denver Crime Stoppers. On behalf of the entire Board of Directors of Metro Denver Crime Stoppers, we are increasing our reward from up to $2,000 to up to $4,000 for information leading to an arrest of the person or persons who committed these heinous crimes against the Joel family and against our community. Every crime that we're involved with tugs at my heart strings and has for over the last 25 years. But when I woke up the other morning to the news of this and we started talking to our coordinator and to the detectives, it was the least we could do. So I please, I urge you, if you have any information on this crime, remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers and earn a reward of up to $4,000. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mills. Next we're going to have Officer Simeon Koto come up to the microphone. Officer Koto is fluent in French. On the day of the crime, we quickly discovered that many of the people involved that might have some pertinent information only spoke French. Officer Koto volunteered to come out and he assisted with that. What we're going to do now is because we want this message to get out to our entire community, we're going to ask him and come and read the short narrative from the Crime Stoppers bulletin in French. Thank you, Chief. Good afternoon everyone. In the 53rd street, North Rookie, the street of Denver, in the environments of 2.30 am, the fire, it seems that the fire was intentionally activated by strangers. And these strangers left the environments of the house after the fire was activated. The Denver Police Department, with the Metro Denver Crime Stopper, will earn a reward of $14,000 to everyone who can help us resolve this crime. Thank you. Merci. Good afternoon everyone and thank you so much for having us. We want to start by thanking the Denver Police for walking tirelessly since this horrific crime took place to be by our side and to support us. We have here the Consul General of Senegal that flew in from New York. We also have Gabriel Young Brother. His name is Musa. He also would like to say a few words. And as a leader in the African community, we are not used to see something like this take place. And we consider ourselves part of this society, part of this great nation. We call home. And this is a time where we don't want to feel alone. This is a time we want the U.S. born citizen to embrace us and wrap us around their arm because our hearts or soul has been shattered. But the only thing that can give us peace is to be able to identify the individual that did this horrific crime and brought them to justice. And we are asking not only the Denver Police, not only the city official, but we are asking every resident of Denver, every resident of the state of Colorado to help us solve this crime. Any information that you have, even if you think it's not valuable, we would like for you to come forward and share it with us. This is not only depending on Gabriel family, but this is depending on the entire immigrant community, not only African. So helping us solve this crime will help every immigrant living in this great state of Colorado to feel at peace and feel secure. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And now I'd like to introduce the Council General of the Republic of Senegal, Haji Nadiau. Thank you. Thank you, Chief. Thank you very much. Greetings. Good afternoon. I would like to, on behalf of the Government of Senegal, express our gratitude to the Denver Police. What you've shown so far is very encouraging. We appreciate it. We see all the efforts that have been done since yesterday. Inspector, a detective baker had come and kindly met with the family and had shared with us some assuring words. All we are asking for and that you are concerned about is for justice to be served. For whoever did this to be found and to be brought to justice for the sake of peace and security in this great city of Denver, but also for the sake of comfort to its citizens, including Senegalese nationals. I am again grateful for all you have done thus far and look forward to what you'll be doing in the future to bring this to a closure. Thank you. And at this time I'd like to call up the brother of Jabril, Musa, come up and say a couple words. Good afternoon, everybody. I'm the youngest brothers, those people who lost their lives. That was my family, my everything. It's hard to really talk to right now because it's still heartbreaking and so emotional right now, but it hurts. It hurts a lot just to wake up and lose your family like that. Nobody doesn't deserve this. Nobody, no family didn't deserve this. We're going to miss them a lot, a lot. All we want right now is y'all offices. We just want y'all justice. We just want y'all justice. Y'all can do all your power you call to just help this resolve because this just hurt a lot, you know, losing your family, all your family in one time. But we just want justice. Thank you. Well, thank you. I want the family, the local community of Senegal and the country of Senegal to know you have our full commitment and devotion to this case. We're going to do everything in our power. We're going to rely heavily on the community to assist us. And we have every hope that we are going to find the individual or individuals responsible for this and bring them to justice. So that concludes the official portion of the Crime Stoppers presentation, and now I'll answer any questions you might have. Chief, in the crime alert, you say it's mentioned that a car was seen fleeing from the scene. What can you tell us about that? At this time, we don't want to discuss that because we don't want individuals to get rid of evidence or destroy the car or hide the car. So we don't want to disclose any more information on that. It'll just hurt the case at this point. What makes it, do you think arson in this case, what did you find it to see that makes it a fire that you believe was deliberately set? Again, I can't get into the detail. We're relying on the expertise of the Denver Fire arson investigators, the ATF, and some of the evidence collected the scene, but I can't say much more than that right now. Not right at this time. We don't want to get tunnel visioned into a motive. There are some cases on the front end that's very evident as to what the motive was for crime. This is not one of those cases. So we have to go into it very open-minded and look at every possible angle. And if at some point we determine it was hate motivated or bias motivated, then we will definitely share that with the community. An arson detection dog there. Did that dog hit on anything just in terms of whether an accelerant was used? Again, I don't want to get too much detail. We did have an arson dog on scene. I think they were effective with the investigation and I won't say anything more about that. No, we cannot. Can you say how many individuals or suspects the department is looking for? Is it just one person? I can't discuss that at this point. We're investigating as a homicide, so that means that we believe it was intentionally set. Yes. We do not know that. We absolutely do not know that. That's not even something that I don't want to share. We just do not know at this point. Have you questioned anyone so far in connection with this fire? No, other than the immediate, the family members that were in the home at the time were the only ones that we have spoke to about that. Were there any cameras in the neighborhood that might have caught the vehicle that you're looking for? There were several cameras in the area and they were still examining that evidence and hopefully it'll produce some information that will help us solve this crime. Chief, can you put this into historical perspective? What was the last time that the police department dealt with a fire with this many casualties? Well, the only one that comes to mind to me was probably around 2012-2013 at Faro's up on Colorado Boulevard, but that was more of an arson to cover up a homicide. The individuals had been executed inside and then the building was set on fire. That's the only one that comes to mind, so I wasn't really prepared to answer that historically, but I only know about that one because I was there. Thank you.