Man accused of killing 15-year-old alleged robber expected to strike plea

A man accused of killing a 15-year-old boy he believed was breaking into his home last year is scheduled to enter a plea next week.

Eric Holloway, 24, is scheduled to appear in Arapahoe County District Court July 20 for arraignment, according to court records.

Holloway is charged with first-degree murder in connection with the Sept. 6, 2011, shooting death of Jason Perez-Gonzalez at an apartment complex near East Harvard Avenue and South Peoria Street, police said.

Police arrested Holloway a short time after the shooting. He has been held in the Arapahoe County Jail since.

According to an arrest affidavit filed against Holloway, he told police he was playing video games on his couch the morning of the shooting when he heard a knock at his door. He didn’t answer the door because he wasn’t expecting anybody.

When the knocking continued, he went to the bedroom where his girlfriend, Tiffane Ward, was and asked if she was expecting anyone. When she said she wasn’t, Holloway went back to the couch and continued playing his game.

Holloway said he heard another noise at the door and when he looked through the peephole saw two Hispanic men at his door. One appeared to be trying to cut the screen open, he said.

After that, Holloway ran to his bedroom and grabbed a .40 caliber pistol and ran back to the door.

When he opened the door the two males, who were both carrying backpacks, fled down the stairs.

Holloway told police he fired two or three times at the fleeing males from the top of the stairs and then chased them, firing several more shots at them.

When he came around the corner of a building, he found one of the males with a gunshot wound and asked “Why did you do that?”

The boy told him “wrong house.”

Holloway then ran back to the apartment, changed clothes and ran to his car with Ward.

When he got to the car, Holloway said he saw the second male talking on a cell phone. He asked the boy “why he made him do that,” choked him, then slammed him to the ground before fleeing. It wasn’t clear from the affidavit if police ever contacted that second male.

He stashed the gun in a computer bag in the car along with some marijuana.

When police asked Holloway why he didn’t report the incident to police, he said it was because the gun wasn’t registered and because he had about an ounce of marijuana on him.

Police later learned the gun had been reported stolen in Denver.

Ward was arrested on an accessory charge and later released from jail.

Colorado Bureau of Investigation records say the arrest was Ward’s first in the state. Holloway had been arrested a few times on domestic violence charges, according to CBI.