Police release 911 audio of roadside slaying
WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. -- A Colorado woman frantically tried to get help as she reported she was being followed in her car by a former boyfriend moments before she was shot and killed, according to a chilling 911 tape released Friday.
The ex-boyfriend, identified by police as 35-year-old Tyler James Martin of Denver, is wanted in connection with Tuesday's slaying in the Denver suburb of Wheat Ridge. Police said he may have fled to Missouri or Illinois, where he has family.
Friday evening, Wheat Ridge police spokeswoman Lisa Stigall said a man was found dead in a Chicago home following a standoff with police. Authorities have not confirmed the man was Martin; however, Stigall said the standoff and death occurred at the residence of one of his family members and that his vehicle was found nearby.
The tape records a call made to police by Amber Kathleen Cremeens' current boyfriend, who is talking to Cremeens as she describes being chased by an ex-boyfriend.
The boyfriend tells a 911 dispatcher that the ex-boyfriend "has been stalking the hell out of her."
"He will not leave her alone," Cremeens' boyfriend tells the dispatcher. He is identified only as Alex in the call.
"He can't get you if you keep driving, Amber," the boyfriend tells Cremeens.
Moments later, Cremeens is heard screaming.
"He's trapping you?" the boyfriend asks, and then, "He's trying to run you off the road?" before losing the call.
A subsequent caller to the 911 dispatcher reports a car accident and a shooting in the area where Cremeens said she was being chased.
Wheat Ridge police say Cremeens' car was run off the road before she was shot inside it.
Police say Cremeens, 34, dated Martin for about eight years until August and that he exhibited "stalking behavior" toward her.
Martin's neighbors told The Denver Post Friday that he had showed them three guns he had bought to protect himself from neighborhood gangs. Martin had reportedly told friends he and Cremeens had made up and he was excited about a possible reunion.