AURORA | In what prosecutors called vigilanteism, a former U.S. Space Force technical sergeant was sentenced Friday to 54 years in prison for fatally shooting a 14-year-old boy and wounding another teen while pursuing the boys because he thought they had tried to steal his car.

An Adams County jury convicted Orest Schur, 29, in June of second-degree murder and second-degree attempted murder in the 2023 shooting. Schur was stationed at Buckley Space Force Base.

The shooting began at about 11:30 pm. July 5 2023 when Schur said he heard the car alarm from his Hyundai Elantra going off in front of his northeast Aurora home, according to police reports.

Schur told investigators he saw two people “dressed in all black” trying to break into his car. He grabbed his hand-gun and went outside t

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