A year after a teenager opened fire into a late night Lower Downtown Denver (LoDo) bar crowd because her ID was rejected, the suspect pleaded guilty on Friday to a single count of first-degree attempted murder with extreme indifference.

There were eight named victims in the case, five of whom were shot.

Keanna Rosenburgh, now 18, spoke clearly when she gave her guilty plea at the podium dressed in a maroon jail outfit. She told the judge that she didn’t go to school past the tenth grade. She was 17 when she committed the shooting.

Three of Rosenburgh’s victims suffered gunshot wounds to the leg, another was shot in the ankle, and a fifth victim was shot in the right big toe.

She originally faced more than 20 criminal counts, including eight charges of attempted murder. Security footage captured Rosenburgh firing a handgun indiscriminately into a crowd of people waiting in line at Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row on Sept. 16, 2023.

The ID Rosenburgh showed at the door belonged to a 25-year-old woman with a different name, according to the arrest affidavit.

After the incident, she fled to Southern California and was on the run until Oct. 19, 2023, when the Denver Police department arrested her with the help of the Los Angeles FBI.

The Lakewood teen’s case never left adult court, so she was charged as an adult, but she qualifies for Youth Offender Services because of the age she was when she committed the offense.

Under the plea deal, she faces a sentence of five-to-seven years in the Youthful Offender System. A 21-year Department of Corrections sentence was suspended, which means if she successfully completes her time in the youthful offender system, she will not serve time in DOC.

However, if her youthful offender sentence is revoked for any reason, she will face 21 years in prison.

This all means that, if she serves the full sentence in YOS, she could be free by the time she is 24.

The one charge she pleaded guilty to was amended to name all of the five victims in the case.

One of the victims told The Denver Gazette’s news partners 9NEWS she was not happy about the plea deal.

“I think there’s way more compassion for her than there is for the victims,” Desarie Gomez said. “She should have gotten life. She definitely changed my life. She changed my friends and my families. And I don’t think it’s fair that this is going to be something that I’m going to be experiencing for the rest of my life, and she only has to deal with it for the next six years. Max.”

Gomez has had five surgeries on the shattered bones, arteries destroyed and nerves “completely torn up,” she said.

“I actually rarely leave my house, but it just kind of happened that I was out that night, and it shifted everything for me,” Gomez said. “I had to cut back on school. I actually dropped out, planning on going back hopefully, but there was a lot. It definitely took a huge toll on my body, huge toll on me mentally.”

Rosenburgh’s attorneys had filed motions to move her case to juvenile court, which would have meant less severe consequences if she was convicted as an adult.

The Denver Police Department investigation found that Rosenburgh was denied entry to the bar because of issues with her ID. She began walking away but quickly returned to have another conversation with security staff, police said.

As she walked away a second time, police said, she pulled out a gun and fired it in the direction of the club multiple times, injuring the five victims. Police said they believed the five victims were not targeted, and they happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

As previously reported by The Denver Gazette, the shooting was one of many factors that led to an increase in police presence in LoDo and prompted a number of community meetings to curb violence in the neighborhood.

This August, Denver Police Chief Ron Thomas said that the department has seen a “significant reduction” in violence in the area due to some of their mitigation efforts, such as like dispersing nightlife crowds through dedicated rideshare areas on weekend nights and banning late-night food trucks in the area.

Victims, people who support Rosenburgh and experts will give impact statements at her sentencing, which is scheduled for Jan. 22, 2025.

The Denver Gazette’s news partners 9NEWS contributed to this story.