Man charged in officer's killing pleads not guilty

Arvada Police Officer Dillon Vakoff was shot and killed last September while responding to a disturbance call. Example video title will go here for...

May 30, 2023
9:46 PM

Arvada Police Officer Dillon Vakoff was shot and killed last September while responding to a disturbance call. Example video title will go here for this video ARVADA, Colo. — The man accused of fatally shooting an Arvada Police officer last September pleaded not guilty Tuesday morning in Jefferson County District Court. Sonny Almanza is set to go to trial in September for the fatal shooting of Officer Dillon Vakoff, 27, who was killed in the early morning hours of Sept. 11. He and another officer had responded to a family disturbance on West 51st Avenue near the intersection with Marshall Street in Arvada.

Janet Oravetz