An Aurora man already sentenced to 40 years in prison for his role in the 2021 murder of a Coors Field concessions worker has been sentenced to 45 years for shooting at Denver police officers who were attempting to serve an arrest warrant for the 2021 shooting.
A Denver District Court judge sentenced Treneil McNeal in the Sept. 13, 2022, shooting at the Super 8 Motel at 7201 E. 36th Ave. in which he shot over 20 rounds at officers through a hotel room door, Denver District Attorney Beth McCann announced Thursday in a news release. He pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree assault on a peace officer on Oct. 27.
McNeal two months ago was sentenced to 40 years in prison for second-degree murder after he provided a handgun to Javon Price, who allegedly used it to kill Gregory Hopkins, 41, who worked at Coors Field, outside the stadium in August 2021.
Price is charged with first-degree murder and is scheduled to go to trial in February.
“The two sentences that Mr. McNeal has received ensure that he will not be a free man again for a long time, if ever, and that is very good news for the city of Denver,” McCann said in the news release. “I want to thank the prosecutors and investigators in my office for bringing these cases to a successful resolution. I also want to thank the Denver Police officers who exhibited great bravery and professionalism while taking Mr. McNeal into custody.”
Denver police’s SWAT team responded to the Super 8 Motel on Sept. 13, 2022, to arrest McNeal on warrants that included one for Hopkins’ death, but when the officers identified themselves and asked McNeal to come out of his room, he immediately began firing rounds through the door at officers inside the building, according to the news release.
Customers at a nearby Chick-fil-A restaurant were “pinned down in their cars in the drive-thru lanes” and forced to take cover inside the store during the shooting.
DPD officers were able to take McNeal into custody without firing any of their weapons once he finished shooting at them, according to the news release.
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