Remi Cordova was convicted of first-degree murder for the death of Pamela Cabriales, 32, as she was stopped at a light at Colfax Avenue and Interstate 25 in 2021.

A Denver judge on Thursday sentenced a teenager who murdered a woman at a traffic light on Colfax Avenue to life in prison with the possibility of parole. Parole eligibility for Remi Cordova will come after 40 years served.

On a February night almost four years ago, Lorenzo Rodriguez sat his 5-year-old son down to tell him that his mother had been killed. “‘Leo, we need to talk,’” Rodriguez said, recounting his exact words in Denver District Court on Thursday.

A judge sentenced a teenager who murdered a woman in cold blood in Denver to life in prison with the possibility of parole.

Remi Cordova, now 18, was sentenced to life in prison for the 2021 murder of 32-year-old Pamela Cabriales and the attempted murder of another woman when he was 14.