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Woman, 35, identified in New Year’s homicide in northeast Colorado Springs

Andrea Martinez

The El Paso County Coroner’s Office has identified the woman killed in a New Year’s shooting on the northeast side of Colorado Springs, according to a news release Monday from police.

Colorado Springs police arrived to a disturbance in the 5800 block of Oakwood Boulevard, near Powers Boulevard and Templeton Gap Road, shortly after midnight Jan. 1, where they found Andrea Martinez with at least one gunshot wound.

Martinez, 35, died on scene.

The Coroner’s Office is still determining the cause and manner of death, but police are investigating it as the city’s first homicide of 2025, according to the release.

No arrests have been announced. Anyone with information or who was a witness to the incident is asked to call police at 719-444-4000. If you wish to remain anonymous, you may call the Crime Stoppers Tip Line at 719-634-STOP (7867) or 1-800-222-8477.

Andrea Martinez. (Courtesy of the family of Andrea Martinez, via CSPD)
Andrea Martinez. (Courtesy of the family of Andrea Martinez, via CSPD)


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