A 33-year-old Aurora man was arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder after a fight outside the Englewood Civic Center that killed one man and seriously injured another.
Yechamien Porter was arrested Monday and booked into the Arapahoe County Jail, Englewood police said Tuesday.
Officers responded to reports of a fight at 1000 Englewood Parkway at 2 p.m. Friday and found two people with serious injuries, according to an arrest affidavit.
A witness told police that a man, later identified as Porter, was acting rudely toward a woman when one of the victims confronted him. Porter then attacked the man, who police identified as 29-year-old Micah Plaisted.
Surveillance video showed Porter punching Plaisted in the face, causing him to fall, and then continuously stomping and kicking his head and torso, even after he lost consciousness, police officials said.
Porter then turned to assault another man at the scene before kicking Plaisted in the head two more times and running toward the nearby Regional Transportation District station.
Plaisted was taken to HCA HealthONE Swedish Hospital and released, but was rushed back to a local hospital Sunday with internal bleeding and died a short time later. An autopsy found he had multiple internal injuries, including a lacerated spleen and liver and head trauma, according to the affidavit.
After he was arrested, Porter told police he was defending himself in the fight.
He is in custody on a $100,000 bail and is set to appear in court Friday for a filing of charges hearing, court records show. He is being represented by the Colorado Office of the State Public Defender, which does not comment on criminal cases.
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