The man who shot and killed two people on a Denver bike trail in 2023 will spend the rest of his life in prison, according to the Denver District Attorney’s Office.
Tanner Ray Fielder was sentenced Monday to life in prison without the possibility of parole after a Denver jury convicted him in October on two counts of first-degree murder. Fielder was arrested in September 2023 after police connected him to two fatal shootings on the South Platte River Trail.
Lluvia Robles-Banuelos, 31, and Jeremy Hutcheson, 43, were both found dead on the trail that month, just days apart. Robles-Banuelos was found dead on Sept. 6 where the trail travels underneath Interstate 70 near North Washington Street, and Hutcheson was found dead on Sept. 9 near the intersection of South Platte River Drive and West Florida Avenue.
“Their deaths were a senseless tragedy,” Denver District Attorney John Walsh said in a video posted by his office. “Today’s sentence ensures that Fielder will never again walk the streets of Denver, and for that we should all be grateful.”
Life in prison without parole is the mandatory sentence for first-degree murder in Colorado.
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