Shortly after graduating from Green Mountain High School in Lakewood Peter Glaser was to have started automotive college.
Peter Glaser, 18
“Cars were his life,” his mother Christa told a reporter. “He knew so much.”
But 30 years ago, Peter Glaser was shot in an apparent robbery and never had a chance to go to the school.
His case wasn’t considered a homicide though until he died in 2003, 21 years after he was shot.
The reason it was reclassified was that the shot in 1982 led directly to Glaser’s death.
He had been in a vegetative state most of his life.
On the night of Sept. 17, 1982, Glaser, 18, was working at Phillips and Andersons Lakewood Tire and Wheel, 6321 W. Alameda Ave.