 Well good afternoon everyone thank you all for coming I want to begin just by again offering our condolences to the Daylor family and friends I mean of whom are here today but also acknowledge the family of Mr. Gutierrez Gonzalez Morales I'm sorry in the loss that his family has suffered and certainly we're aware of the fact that not only does this have a significant impact on the families who lose loved ones but also on the communities in which these heinous crimes occur you know I think that it even more makes us understand the you know the resolve that we need to put into solving these cases so that we can so that we can address some of the community concern that that is that is obvious and apparent you know I want to thank the many folks that have donated funds and thank certainly the Metro Denver Crime Stoppers who have been able because of those donations to increase the amount that we're here to announce and in the reward for information leading to the solving this this heinous crime and so at this time I'd like to introduce Matt Clark who's gonna talk about some of the specifics as it relates to this crime so thanks man thanks chief good afternoon my name is Matt Clark I'm the commander of the Denver Police Department's Major Crimes Division appreciate you being here today as we continue to work to resolve the case involving the murders of Emeril Vaughn-Daler and Ignacio Gutierrez Morales nearly two months have passed since Ignacio and Emeril were killed and to this day the department continues to devote significant investigative resources to the case as we do with every unresolved homicide the investigators assigned to this case are diligently working to identify and apprehend the individual or individuals responsible for the deaths of Emeril and Ignacio I'd like to provide an overview of the case for background on Monday April 24th 2023 Denver Police officers were called to a restaurant near 38th Avenue and Raleigh Street on a report of two individuals who were possibly deceased inside the responding officers and paramedics located two individuals in adult male and adult female deceased at the location it was later determined that the two had been shot and killed at this point we have not identified the individual or individuals responsible for these deaths we are here today with our partners from Metro Denver Crime Stoppers as well as friends and family of the victims to ask our community for assistance and announce an increased reward for information regarding this case anyone with information can use Crime Stoppers as a tool to provide information anonymously to the investigators to date we have received over a dozen tips related to the case and investigators have follow-up on each tip they've received I recognize and appreciate the concern that exists for residents and businesses in the area and I understand there may be specific questions surrounding this case when verifiable suspect information is developed to include descriptions of people or vehicles those details will be shared with our community immediately please understand this remains an active investigation for the police department detectives and crime lab personnel have worked tirelessly to identify the individuals responsible for the death of emerald and Ignacio since April 24th at this point without having the offenders in custody on a I am unable to provide a definitive answer regarding the motivation for these violent events investigators are considering all possibilities as this point the police department's victims assistance unit continues to work with the family and friends of the victims to ensure they receive the support and resources that they needed again I would ask anyone with information about these homicides or the identity of the individuals responsible to contact Crime Stoppers at 720-913 stop I'd now like to introduce Mr. Danny Gracchi representing Metro Denver Crime Stoppers thank you Matt good afternoon my name is Danny Gracchi I'm the vice president Metro Denver Crime Stoppers I want to thank you for joining us thank you to Chief Thomas and Commander Clark and Detective Trujillo for all the hard work that they put in on this case as most of you know Metro Denver Crime Stoppers is a nonprofit 501c3 that is guided by an all-volunteer board of directors a few of which have joined us today by design Metro Denver Crime Stoppers is here to provide our greater community a resource to anonymously submit information on crimes and wanted persons throughout the Metro Denver area and offer rewards for information that aids our law enforcement partners in their investigation on occasion we have members of the community reach out and want to assist increasing rewards being offered these are typically family members friends businesses citizens to our communities and even strangers halfway across the country that may have heard about the case on the news this is such a tragic event and we have an overwhelming support from the entire community which has allowed us to increase this reward for up to 25,000 as with most open cases someone has information that will ultimately help law enforcement close this case and give answers to these two families there is no piece of information that is too small anyone who has information is please ask to contact our hotline at 720-913 stop Ignacio Gutierrez Morales family was not able to join us here today the family's understandably continues to struggle over his loss and I am certain that if we can get detective Trujillo and the rest of the detectives the right piece of information that we can provide this family with answers Ignacio was loved by many and was a father a brother an uncle a grandfather not just another name we're also joined by Emerald Vaughn dolls family and friends as you can see by the overwhelming support of family and friends here today that these two individuals touched many people's lives and we're searching for answers for them along with our fellow community members Emerald's husband Andrew would like to say a few words as would his sister Danica as with her sister Andrew good afternoon these last two months have been some of the toughest I've ever had to deal with to look at that photo and just know that she's not going to be here ever is really hard but I know with the support of my family friends in this community we can find out who did this and why that's what we're looking for today we're looking for justice justice for Emerald justice for Nacho making this that they didn't go in vain so please if you have anything calls crime stoppers give them the tip and please help us have some closure with this thank you good afternoon I'm Danica Emerald's sister the last two months have been a nightmare in for lack of a better word all I want is for my sister's murder and Ignacio's murder to be solved and for whoever did this to pay for it so if anybody has any information no matter what even if you don't think it's significant please come forward thank you so as you can see this has had significant impact on this family significant impact on our community and so we are dogged about our our desire to to solve this case and so we certainly are open to the community's helping that so with that I'll answer any questions thank you for the question yes the we've narrowed the timeframe to between about 10 o'clock in the morning till about 12 15 in the afternoon robbery is one of the potential motivations that we're considering in this case we don't believe this is connected to any other cases that occurred in the area that we're aware of at this point well this is a challenging it's a complex investigation we haven't identified a fender who is you know not coming forward we have a lot of community support again we're getting tips we've reviewed and are gathering surveillance video we're analyzing forensic evidence so all the same steps are being taken as we wouldn't any any homicide investigation we're working to resolve this is as prompt as possible it hasn't been disclosed it's being considered as part of the investigation we have leads in this case we have not identified any offenders we don't have any any suspect information to release at this point that's correct other than emerald and Ignacio we're not aware of anybody else so we're not able to disclose the evidence that is or is not present we've done multiple canvases the neighborhoods and did collect a number of videos and private surveillance and ring type doorbell cameras and if anybody has additional cameras that they haven't provided to investigators we'd encourage them to do so we haven't ruled that out either way we're not not able to disclose at this point how they gained access certainly understand the fear we have individual or individuals who committed this crime who are not in custody at this point we just advise people to be vigilant be aware of the surroundings take common practices to secure buildings or doors that don't need to be open not that I'm aware of so we're looking at all possible motivations and interactions that the both individuals would have had prior to the incident no that's certainly one of the things we're considering and we're working and talking to former employees of the business as well so you know as you're probably aware we look at our crime data pretty substantially week to week and so this area certainly is an area where we have seen crime certainly nothing like this so this is not something that is common for this particular area obviously we are responsive when we do see rises and crime robberies those kinds of things burglaries and try to you know try to identify patterns and things like that and be responsive to that and I think in relation to a question that was asked earlier we understand that there may be businesses and you know residents community members in this area that are concerned after this crime occurred and again we ask that folks be vigilant and those that may be concerned about going into business opening businesses in this area we would encourage folks to reach out to their to their districts that they that they're opening businesses in or that they currently are engaged in business in work with their community resource officers so that they can work on safety tips crime prevention through environmental design there's a number of things that we can suggest to business owners to strengthen and say and target harden their businesses well I guess the first thing I'd say is I have confidence in my homicide investigators to come to resolve in this case certainly we have seen cases where it has taken quite a bit of time in order to to find an offender and and make an arrest and bring someone to justice I mean what comes to mind is the the truck you fire case took six months in order to to bring someone to justice in that case and so I am very confident in our team to resolve this case I do believe that there is an opportunity yet again to bring this back to public attention by increasing the award reward amount and hopeful that the people that may have something that I thought was in significant some time ago now think that maybe maybe I can come forward and provide that insignificant detail that may actually help us break this case there were a number of items of evidence that were collected and are being tested in this building in this crime lab building now but we're not even speak to specifics on that and certainly in a certain as soon as we get credible information that we can verify is is representative of the suspect whether a vehicle an image a person a description to put out there we'll put that out there for community safety for community assistance but at this point we're not prepared to do that I think that's a large part out there to give us more information to give to investigators to get out so we there's information out there somebody has somebody has the ring door about cameras somebody was walking by maybe heard something or saw somebody that went out of place or something they have that information that's what we're here asking for and then as soon as that's out by DPD you can certainly get that back out so I appreciate the question that's a specific detail we'd be holding at this point though thank you