One man is dead and three people are injured following a shooting early Saturday at a suburban Denver hotel. The Denver Post reports the shooting occurred around 2 a.m. after an altercation at a party in a room at Aurora’s Hyatt House Hotel. Two suspects were “kicked out” of the party and then fired shots through the […]
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Texas man dies in hunting accident in southwest Colorado
DURANGO — Two hunters from Pennsylvania were trying to lure an elk in southwestern Colorado when one of them mistook a bow hunter for prey and fatally shot him, according to an arrest affidavit. Gregory Gabrisch, 31, of Houston, died from a gunshot wound in the San Juan National Forest north of Rico on Friday […]
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Man gets 80 years in killing 2, injuring Aurora police officer
AURORA — A Colorado man has received an 80-year prison sentence in the 2018 killing of two people and attempted murder of an Aurora police officer. Thirty-one-year-old Demarcus Brown-Jones had been convicted in May on second-degree murder, reckless manslaughter and other charges. Police were investigating a reported fight in August, 2018 near the University of […]
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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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Man shot, killed after pulling gun on Jefferson County deputy
GOLDEN — A sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a man who pulled a gun during an encounter northwest of Denver. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office says deputies were responding to a report of a man standing next to a motorcycle waving a gun near the Willis Case Golf Course at about noon Thursday. No one […]
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21-year-old Castle Rock man fatally shot while protecting his baby at Miami Beach restaurant
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — A gunman fatally shot a tourist eating dinner with his family at a Miami Beach restaurant as the man protected his 1-year-old son, police and a family member said. Tamarius Blair Davis Jr., 22, of Norcross, Georgia, told investigators he shot Dustin Wakefield, 21, on Tuesday night because he “was high […]
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Police officer on leave following shooting that killed 3 in Olde Town Arvada
DENVER — A police officer involved in a shooting that killed three people in a Denver suburb has been put on administrative leave, suggesting that the officer may have shot one of the people who died. Killed in Monday’s shooting in Arvada were a fellow officer, a man police have described as a suspect and […]
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Three people killed — including police officer, suspect — in Olde Town Arvada shooting
ARVADA —Three people were killed, including a veteran police officer and the suspected gunman, in a shooting in Olde Town Arvada on Monday afternoon. Gunfire broke out in the popular shopping and entertainment district northwest of Denver at about 1:30 p.m. The shooting happened after police were called to check out a suspicious person in […]
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Denver police shoot, kill man suspected of firing shots
Denver police shot and killed a man suspected of firing shots into an unoccupied vehicle before threatening officers with a gun. Division Chief Ron Thomas says the man in his 20s was shot Sunday evening and taken to a hospital, where he died. Officers were looking for the man after witnesses reported that someone was […]
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King Soopers shooting victims demand answers from nonprofits handling $5.8M of public donations
By James Anderson and Thomas Peipert, The Associated Press Several families and survivors of those killed in the March mass shooting at a Colorado supermarket have demanded the appointment of a special master to help distribute public donations for victims to a centralized account. They say the nonprofit groups handling the funds are not being […]