There are a lot more bikes sharing the road with cars in Denver, which has created an increasing number of conflicts and collisions on the street. We wrote about the worst crash of 2012 in this week’s feature, “On a Roll,” which explores the growth of Denver as a bike…
At the most recent hearing in the case of Aurora theater shooter, a prosecutor maintained that attack survivors need anonymity because of potentially frightening interest in them by online supporters of accused killer James Holmes. An administrator of the most prominent James Holmes is Innocent Facebook page rejects the suggestion…
Unfortunately, Aurora has suffered yet another killing. Just days after Tisihia Allen was charged with second-degree murder in the October 2 stabbing death of Darius Norris, homicide investigators at Aurora Police Department are hard at work on yet another fatal case…
Update below: The families of the twelve people who died in the Aurora theater shooting and the victims who were brain injured or paralyzed will split 70 percent of the $5 million left in the Aurora Victim Relief Fund, while those who suffered less severe physical injuries will share the…
Someone fired a shot through one of the Obama campaign offices in Denver this afternoon, shattering the glass in one of the windows. No one was injured, according to a Denver Police Department spokeswoman. There are also no suspects as of this writing, and the crime at the 9th Avenue…
Tomorrow night’s episode of the CBS true-crime show 48 Hours will tell the story of Brittney Brashers, a 21-year-old Air Force member who was beaten and choked to death by her boyfriend, Robert Walters, in November 2009. Walters tried to cover up the murder by making it look like a…
Update below: Prosecutors say victims of the Aurora theater shooting are “severely concerned” about their own safety and for that reason, the names of all victims and witnesses in the case should be kept secret. The argument came in response to a request from several media outlets to release the…
The Aurora Police Department has made an arrest in the October 2 death of a man later identified as 24-year-old Darius Norris. Tisihia Allen, 26, is being held on suspicion of second-degree murder. Get more details below…
Ken Feinberg, the “special master” of the Aurora Victim Relief Fund, stood Thursday night in a suit and tie before a couple dozen theater shooting victims at the Aurora library and explained his idea for doling out the more than $5 million in donations to the fund: The “bulk of…
Given all the attention being paid to the disappearance of Jessica Ridgeway, it’s easy to forget that there are other missing children out there. Indeed, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children lists a shocking 38 in Colorado, most (but not all) of them family abductions or endangered runaways…
Had 35-year-old Consuela Zavala crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in the fifteen years since he was accused of brutally gunning down a man in a Weld County onion field? No one’s saying right now. But his attempt to enter Arizona last month triggered a Colorado arrest warrant that led to Zavala’s…
In this week’s feature, “On a Roll,” we take a look at the growth of cycling in Denver and the potentially fatal consequences. As more Denver residents are hopping on bikes, tensions on the road seem to be at an all-time high — and collisions between bikes and cars certainly…
Attorneys for accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes have answered the question we posed last week in this headline: “Should law enforcement be punished for releasing strange new mug shot?” The answer is no — at least according to Holmes’s lawyers, who were the ones asking for the punishment in…
Sandi Peterson sometimes worried about how her son Dan, who moved to Denver in 2010, was getting by in a new city. And when she flew here in July from Wisconsin, it was meaningful to meet so many of his friends at once, even if it was under the worst…
Today, three new documents were released in the case of accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes pertaining to a pair of controversies — defense attorneys’ call for sanctions against prosecutors for allegedly lying about Holmes being banned from the Anschutz Medical Campus, and a request from three shooting survivors suing…
The second-degree murder charge against Fort Collins’ Nicole Marie Ryan will likely be a complicated one to prove. The facts on the surface seem simple: Ryan appears to have slashed the throat of her fiance, Raymond Wimmer, who later bled to death. But this act was prefigured by a back…
One of the central questions in the case of accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes involves whether his attorneys will employ the insanity defense. The legal tactic has been used many times in mass slayings and other shocking crimes, and not always effectively: Note that serial killers John Wayne Gacy…
Update below: Families representing eleven of the twelve people who died in the Aurora theater shooting have asked Colorado’s attorney general and secretary of state to investigate Community First Foundation and its website, GivingFirst.org, which collected more than $5 million in donations to the Aurora Victim Relief Fund. The letter…
Just a few weeks after a honk-happy Colorado driver was arrested for harassing two cyclists on an open road in Longmont, another bike rider has been victimized — this time on a path with no cars. A barbed wire trap on a trail in South Platte Park threw a woman…
Update: Last week, we told you about a homicide in Green Valley Ranch on Wednesday evening; look below for our previous coverage. Now, the Denver coroner’s office has identified the victim as Matthew Gianopoulos, age 21. The cause of death was multiple gunshot wounds. Here’s a little more about a…
Mike White is searching for answers. To find them, he hopes to return to the Aurora theater where a gunman opened fire on White, his family and others who’d come to see the July 20 midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises. “I’m not sure what the questions are,” White…
In August, Gail Parrish shared her frustration about the absence of a guilty plea in the January hit and run that killed Jenna Breen, her beloved daughter. This week, however, that situation changed. Viet Nguyen, the man charged with committing the crime, finally pleaded guilty to all charges against him…
