Family pleads for answers in grandfather’s Christmas Day murder

THORNTON, Colo. (KDVR) — Surveillance video newly released by the Thornton Police Department shows a 69-year-old man leaving Thirsty’s Sports Pub on Christmas Day, just before he was killed.

Manuel Osvaldo Jacquez Machado can be seen exiting the pub, located at 1294 E. 104th Ave., just before 10 p.m. He was leaving after playing a game of pool, one of his favorite pastimes.

“As he’s getting ready to leave, he turns his car on. He backs up into the vehicle behind him where the suspect is,” Thornton Police Detective Kevin Gifford said. “The suspect gets out and walks up and starts screaming, yelling at Osbaldo, who is sitting in his vehicle at the time.”

After Machado got out of his car,…