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Colorado Springs police praise patrons who disarmed Club Q shooter, confirm identities of five victims who died
Thomas James and Richard Fierro confronted the gunman, preventing him from killing others
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“It was an attack on freedom”: Hundreds remember Club Q shooting victims at vigil
Inside All Souls Unitarian Church in downtown Colorado Springs, people packed shoulder to shoulder in memory of the 5 killed Saturday night
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“You’ll never be that self again”: Colorado mass shooting survivors speak about their recovery
Speaking to a panel of survivors and loved ones of mass shootings, former STEM School Highlands Ranch teacher Erin Christian told them she was grateful for their strength and candor. “In the early days, I didn’t see how I was going to get through this,” said Christian, who survived a mass shooting at STEM School […]
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Guns to garden tools: Colorado group seeks change, healing
By Thomas Peipert, The Associated Press Nearly three decades after her 3-year-old son was killed in a drive-by shooting that shattered the silence outside a Denver duplex, Sharletta Evans was the one piercing the stillness as she eased some of her pain by hammering the melted barrel of a rifle into a garden tool. The […]
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Table Mesa King Soopers is now set to reopen Feb. 9, nearly a year after mass shooting
BOULDER — A Colorado supermarket where 10 people were killed in a mass shooting last year is set to reopen Feb. 9 with a ceremony to remember those who lost their lives. “We know that restoring this location is a very important step in our healing journey,” Joe Kelley, president of King Soopers, said in a […]
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Littwin: The Denver-Lakewood shooting spree is the 687th mass shooting in America this year
The more that becomes known about the mass shooting in Denver and Lakewood on Monday evening, the stranger the tragic story becomes. But in the most important way, it is like virtually every other mass shooting. A troubled man — it’s almost always a male — has a gun or two guns or more and, […]
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Second STEM School Highlands Ranch gunman sentenced to life in prison without parole
The man convicted of first-degree murder in the deadly 2019 shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch was sentenced to two terms of of life in prison without the possibility of parole Friday, plus scores of additional years. The sentencing of Devon Erickson by Douglas County District Judge Theresa Slade in a Castle Rock courtroom followed a lengthy […]
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Colorado governor signs three new gun control bills inspired by the Boulder King Soopers shooting into law
Gov. Jared Polis on Saturday signed three gun control bills inspired by the Boulder King Soopers into law, making this year’s legislative session the most significant in terms of firearm regulations in Colorado in nearly a decade. The three bills Polis signed were: Senate Bill 256, which will allow local governments, public higher education institutions […]
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Jury hears from survivors of STEM School Highlands Ranch shooting
Mitchell Kraus didn’t know he’d been shot until he’d already run a couple of blocks from STEM School Highlands Ranch on May 7, 2019. When the student realized something was wrong, he took stock of his body, moving his hand to his back. It came back red with blood. The next thing he remembers wanting […]