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Pueblo Police investigating homicide following altercation at hospital

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PUEBLO — Pueblo Police responded to St. Mary Corwin on Feb. 10, 2021 regarding a disturbance.

When officers arrived, they found medical staff rendering aid to 36-year-old Mathew Haskel Jones.

Police said Jones had been involved in a physical altercation with hospital security staff before they got there.

Jones was transported to a hospital in Colorado Springs on the date of the incident and then died at that hospital on February 18, 2021.

Pueblo Police began investigating the incident as a suspicious death. Following an autopsy, it was determined that the cause of Jones’s death was homicide. The Pueblo Police Department is now investigating this incident as a homicide, and the investigation is active and ongoing.