AURORA — A Colorado jury on Wednesday convicted a man of fatally shooting the parents of five children who were trying to buy an SUV in 2020 using the online marketplace app Letgo.
Arapahoe County jurors convicted Kyree Brown, 20, of multiple counts, including first-degree murder, in the killings of Joe and Jossline Roland on Aug. 14, 2020, KUSA-TV reported.
The deaths led to a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of the victims’ family that claims Letgo, which has been acquired by OfferUp, was negligent because it allowed the alleged shooter to become a “verified seller” using a fake name and despite his criminal history.
That federal court case is still working its way through the legal system.
Authorities say Joseph Roland was looking for a vehicle for his teenage daughter and found a Toyota RAV4 advertised by a “verified seller” on Letgo named James Worthy, who was really Brown, then 18. Roland agreed to meet Brown in a parking lot near a mall in Aurora.
When Roland and his wife, Jossline, arrived, Brown told them he had accidentally brought the wrong vehicle title and asked the couple to meet him elsewhere, according to the lawsuit.
They followed the man to the address, where Brown was accused of pulling a handgun and shooting the couple after Joseph Roland tried to wrestle the weapon away. Investigators say the teen then fled with $3,000 in cash the Rolands had brought with them to pay for the SUV.
Brown was arrested about two weeks after the shooting. He…
