UPDATE: Penrose killing may have been 'make my day' shooting

A 30-year-old man was shot Monday in the bedroom of a Penrose mobile home where he apparently went to confront his former girlfriend's new boyfriend, a witness told The Gazette.

The victim, August Michael Kaleta Jr., was found lying in the doorway of a mobile home and died at the scene, the Fremont County Sheriff's Office said.

The man suspected of pulling the trigger was questioned by deputies and released about 6 p.m. Monday, said Fremont County sheriff's Capt. Don Pinover.

"It could be a 'make by day' situation," Pinover said. The Colorado "make my day" law says people may use deadly force to protect themselves in their homes.

Salvador Jaquez, a resident of the mobile home park at 510 I St. in Penrose, said he saw Kaleta pull up and followed him as he went "right in" to the home. He said the Kaleta and the shooting suspect "had a history" and there had been a physical altercation a couple of days earlier.

"I tried to stop that guy and he didn't listen," Jaquez said of Kaleta.

He said Kaleta went into a bedroom and then Jaquez heard shots and Kaleta came out wounded and apologizing to "Danny." Jaquez identified the man who shot Kaleta as Daniel Haywood, 23, who has lived in the mobile home about four months.

Jaquez said Haywood apparently awoke to find Kaleta standing over him.

"It was self-defense," Jaquez said. "He doesn't belong in jail."

Jaquez said the two men were friends until Haywood starting dating Kaleta's ex-girlfriend.

"Over a woman," he said. "That's what it was all about."

Kaleta was shot at least once and investigators found two bullet holes in the adjacent mobile home, Pinover said. No one inside that home was injured.

Pinover said a female was in the trailer where the shooting occurred shortly before 9 a.m.

Jaquez said his wife called 911 and he cradled Kaleta as he died.

"I saw the life go out of him. I told him, 'August, why did you do this?'"