COLORADO SPRINGS — About 200 people attended a candlelight vigil outside a Colorado Springs mobile home park where six people celebrating family birthdays were shot and killed before the gunman took his own life. The Gazette reports that family and friends of those slain and members of the larger community paid their respects late Thursday to the […]
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Neighbors mourn victims of Colorado Springs birthday shooting that killed 7
By Thomas Peipert, The Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS — Residents of a tight-knit trailer park in Colorado Springs tried to make sense of a weekend shooting at a birthday party that killed six people before the gunman, described as a boyfriend of one of the victims, took his own life. Police promised to release details […]
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Police still looking for motive in Colorado Springs birthday party that left 7 dead
By Thomas Peipert, James Anderson and Colleen Slevin, The Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS — A shooting at a birthday party inside a trailer park home in Colorado Springs that killed six people before the gunman took his own life stunned a state weary of gun violence just weeks after another Colorado mass shooting killed 10 […]
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7 killed, including suspected gunman, in mass shooting at Colorado Springs birthday party
Seven people are dead, including the suspected gunman, after a mass shooting early Sunday at a home in Colorado Springs where a birthday party was being held. Police say the shooting happened at about 12:15 a.m. at a trailer home on the 2800 block of Preakness Way in the Canterbury Park subdivision just west of […]
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Where did they get the guns? A comprehensive look at Colorado’s history of public gun violence.
Six days before Colorado’s latest mass shooting, the suspect bought a Ruger AR-556 pistol at a gun store near his home. Seven days before an Arapahoe High School student killed a classmate in 2013, he picked up a 12-gauge shotgun at a Cabela’s store. One day before an 18-year-old allegedly obsessed with the Columbine murders […]
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“You can’t unsee anything”: What Michael Dougherty, Boulder’s district attorney, faces as he investigates the King Soopers shooting
Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty is embarking on what’s likely the most difficult period of his long career as a prosecutor this week as he leads the investigation into Monday’s mass shooting at a King Soopers store. Dougherty, a 49-year-old New York native, was first appointed to his job as Boulder’s top prosecutor by […]
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Colorado Democrats will pursue mandatory waiting period for gun buyers, safe-storage measure in 2021
Democratic state lawmakers in Colorado are planning to introduce at least three pieces of gun-control legislation this year, including a measure that would require a waiting period — potentially of five days — between when someone purchases a firearm and when they can access that weapon. The other two bills would require gun owners to […]
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Video indicates slain protester was upset about being filmed by 9News producer
By Colleen Slevin, The Associated Press Video from a Denver television station shows that a pro-police demonstrator who was fatally shot by a security guard hired by the station was apparently angry that he was being filmed as he argued with another man just seconds before the shooting. The cellphone video taken by the producer […]
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Gun-control groups see Colorado’s U.S. Senate race as a big opportunity. But it’s complicated.
Colorado’s Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner has effectively been a top target for Giffords, a national group pushing for more gun-control legislation and candidates willing to champion those measures, since its inception four years ago, said Joanna Belanger, the organization’s political director. In fact, Belanger says, Giffords has been engaged in a “years-long effort to […]
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Denver police identify 9News security guard arrested in fatal protest shooting
Denver police on Sunday identified the 9News security guard arrested in a fatal shooting during a protest downtown Saturday afternoon. Matthew Dolloff, 30, is being held for investigation of first-degree murder. 9News said he worked for the private security company Pinkerton. “This remains an active investigation,” the Denver Police Department said in a tweet. “Any […]