A Colorado Springs mother and hairstylist is dead after a crash on Colorado Boulevard in Denver last Saturday, and the driver now faces charges of vehicular homicide and driving under the influence. Camden Warren was riding as a passenger in the vehicle when it collided with another car, according to police.
The driver, 25-year-old Matias Lopez, faces the vehicular homicide and DUI charges, according to the Gazette. The outlet reports it remains unclear exactly what led police to arrest him. Separately, KRDO reports that Lopez allegedly ran a red light and crashed into a vehicle traveling north on Colorado Boulevard, with Warren killed in the crash as a passenger in his car.
Warren was remembered as a mother and hairstylist based in Colorado Springs, according to a GoFundMe page established to support her family and cited in the Gazette's report. A Spanish-language KRDO report states Warren was 29 and worked as a hairstylist, and that she left behind a five-year-old son.
Lopez's Pending Court Case
As of Wednesday afternoon, Lopez was still listed as an inmate in Denver County, and the Gazette's report notes he is set to appear before a Denver County judge Thursday morning. The outcome of that hearing had not been reported at the time of the Gazette's story.
Court records reviewed by the same outlet show Lopez had no criminal case history in Colorado before October 17, when he was charged in the first of four separate El Paso County cases. Those cases include felony charges of menacing, violating a protection order and second-degree assault, the Gazette reports — all filed in the weeks before the fatal Denver crash.
A Busy Intersection With a Recent History
Colorado Boulevard has seen other serious collisions this year. Hoodline previously reported that a separate hit-and-run crash at the same intersection on June 7 left a motorcyclist seriously injured after the driver fled the scene.
Statewide, impaired driving remains a persistent problem on Colorado roads. A page from the Colorado Department of Transportation reports 715 total traffic deaths in 2025, with 236 of those involving impaired driving — a 9.7% increase from the year before — and 16,665 DUI cases filed, led by drivers in the 25-to-34 age range. Those figures come from an incomplete search snippet and have not been independently verified against the full page.
For now, Warren's family is left to grieve while Lopez's case moves through Denver County court. No additional details about the circumstances of his arrest or the status of the charges had been made public as of the Gazette's report.
