More than 14 years after 49-year-old Larry Fuller was shot death while walking home from a bar in Ignacio, police have identified and arrested the potential shooter.

According to a news release from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Fuller was killed on January 1, 2009, just over an hour into the new year. He was reportedly walking home from the Sidekick Bar on Goddard Avenue when he was shot. He died at the scene.

Investigators suspect that his death may have been the result of an altercation that took place at the bar earlier that night.

In February of this year, the Ignacio Police Department asked the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to assist on the case.

On May 18, law enforcement arrested 38-year-old suspect David Hendren at the Navajo Nation in Arizona for Fuller’s murder.

“Through the course of this years-long investigation, witness interviews were conducted by CBI, which subsequently led to Hendren’s identification and arrest,” the release said.

Hendren is now facing first degree murder charges, and is awaiting extradition to Durango by the La Plata County Sheriff’s Office. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

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