Mass shooters have killed hundreds of people throughout U.S. history in realms like stores, theaters and workplaces, but it is in schools and colleges where the carnage reverberates perhaps most keenly — places filled with children of tender ages, older students aspiring to new heights and the teachers planting the seeds of knowledge, their journeys all cut […]
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Separate shootings Monday in Denver area, Colorado Springs leave 7 wounded
Police on Monday were investigating several separate shootings in the Denver area and Colorado Springs that left seven people wounded. In Colorado Springs, two juveniles were shot in a parking lot outside The Citadel mall after a disturbance that started inside the mall, police spokesperson Lt. Pam Castro said. KKTV reported that one of the victims […]
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Florissant man kills himself after shooting at neighbors’ homes
FLORISSANT — A man was found dead after shooting at the homes of his neighbors in a Colorado mountain community early Sunday, leading residents to be evacuated, authorities said. The man was later found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his home in Florissant, about 35 miles northwest of Colorado Springs, the Teller County Sheriff’s […]
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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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Former police officer charged in shooting death of 17-year-old in Aurora
AURORA — A former police officer has been charged with second-degree murder and other crimes in the shooting death of a 17-year-old boy in suburban Denver last month, prosecutors said Wednesday. Adam Holen, 36, was arrested Wednesday in the Nov. 24 shooting in Aurora. Court records do not list an attorney for him. Police have […]
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Teens charged in shooting that wounded 3 students at Hinkley High School in Aurora
Three teens were charged Tuesday with attempted murder in a shooting that wounded three students in the parking lot of a suburban Denver high school. The charges against the three 16-year-old boys in the Nov. 19 shooting at Aurora’s Hinkley High School were filed in regular court but their lawyers will have a chance to […]
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Five people wounded in Aurora shooting near party
Five people were wounded in a shooting early Sunday near a house party in Aurora. Police say there were called just after midnight to the intersection of East Colfax Avenue and North Dayton Street where officers found two people who had been shot. Three others showed up at a local hospital with gunshot wounds. “Responding […]
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Teen arrested in drive-by shooting near Aurora high school that left 6 wounded
AURORA — A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with a drive-by shooting near a school in suburban Denver, police said Tuesday. The boy, who was taken into custody Monday night, is suspected of driving one of two cars believed to have been involved in the Nov. 15 shooting, Aurora police said. His name was not […]
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6 Aurora Central High School students hospitalized after drive-by shooting at nearby park
AURORA — Six teenagers were wounded in a shooting at an Aurora park near their high school Monday afternoon. All of the victims attend Aurora Central High School. All are expected to survive, though one was undergoing emergency surgery. “My understanding is it was a drive-by shooting,” said Aurora police Chief Vanessa Wilson. She added […]
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Colorado Springs police officer kills shoplifting suspect who allegedly fired gun
COLORADO SPRINGS — A person suspected of shoplifting was shot and killed by a police officer after the man fired at the officer on Sunday, police said. According to Colorado Springs police, the suspect ran from a Walmart and refused commands to stop, eventually hiding behind a car. The officer, who had been providing security […]