An early morning shooting at an Aurora house party left one teenager dead Sunday, police said.
Aurora officers responded to reports of a man lying in the road near the intersection of East Oregon Drive and East Mexico Drive at about 12:56 a.m. Sunday, according to a news release from the police department. That residential area is just west of South Chambers Road.
When they arrived, officers discovered the person, identified by the Arapahoe County Coroner’s Office as 16-year-old Cayden Kane David Mazotti, had been shot, according to the release.
Police originally reported that the victim was an adult man.
Paramedics took Cayden to the hospital, where he later died from his injuries.
Investigators said the 16-year-old was attending a party in the 16000 block of East Bails Place earlier that night, less than a mile from where he was found in the road.
Multiple shots were fired at the party, police said. The exact number was not available Monday morning.
Investigators recovered “numerous shell casings, of different calibers,” from the scene of the shooting, police stated in the release.
At least two vehicles and one house were damaged, but no other injuries were reported, police said.
As of Monday morning, no suspects had been publicly identified and no arrests had been made.
Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867 or submit a tip online. Tipsters can remain anonymous.
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Updated at 2:22 p.m. on July 23, 2025: This story was updated to include new information that the victim was a teenager and to include the identity of the teenager who was killed.
