Yesterday, we told you about three overnight homicides in Aurora — including a double murder at the Sunrise Apartments on 13th Avenue. Thus far, the victims of the killing haven’t been identified. But the Aurora Police Department has made an arrest. Ken Kaminga, 35, has been booked on suspicion of…
We’ve been keeping you updated on a home invasion in Golden in which suspects allegedly broke into the wrong house in search of $10,000 worth of drugs and cash. During the incident, homeowner/middle-school teacher Jesse Swift was stabbed as was one suspect, Caleb Williams. The latest: Julia Johnson, thought to be the so-called…
As we’ve reported, the number of officer-involved shootings in the metro area has been on the rise, particularly in Aurora, where three OIS incidents have taken place in May. Even so, it came as a shock to Boulder residents when such a shooting took place in that idyllic community, too…
In recent days, we’ve been reporting about the proliferation of officer-involved shootings in Aurora — three in May thus far. But there’s been plenty of bloodshed in Aurora that’s not directly tied to cops gunning down suspects. Overnight, three people died in the community as a result of two shootings…
Chelsea Yasser was a 21-year-old mom from Arizona who recently visited Colorado. During the trip, Yasser was murdered. And now, police have released a new video they hope will lead them to her killer. Yasser was a devoted Facebooker. She had at least five pages, with the galleries in most…
The tragic death of Colorado State Trooper Jaimie Jursevics while conducting an Interstate 25 traffic stop on Sunday evening, November 15, has touched the hearts of many people here and beyond, as is clear from the outpouring of support for her baby daughter seen on a GoFundMe page set up in her…
“Only in Boulder” is a popular phrase in these parts — and the story of Jon Barbour certainly qualifies. Barbour has been charged with attempted murder for shooting a neighbor in the buttocks, reportedly over a fight about feeding squirrels that he sees as a way to connect with his…
Earlier this week, we posted about three Aurora police officer-involved shootings in May, including an incident on Sunday, May 15, during which a suspect was critically injured. The person shot has now been identified as nineteen-year-old Natnael Gebretsadik, and in a press conference on view below, Aurora Police Chief Nick Metz…
We recently told you about a home invasion in Golden involving three males allegedly in search of drugs and cash who are said to have entered the wrong house — a mistake that resulted in the stabbing of the male resident and one suspect. We now know much more about…
MARCH 12, 2009 LYNNWOOD, WASHINGTON No one came to court with her that day, except her public defender. She was eighteen years old, charged with a gross misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in jail. Rarely do misdemeanors draw notice. Her case was one of 4,859 filed in 2008…
Since 2013, we’ve been covering the murder of Martel Thomas, a veteran who was buried with full military honors. There’s no suspense about who took Thomas’s life: In 2015, Ken Mackey was convicted of the crime, which involved a cocaine deal gone wrong, gunplay and a battle with a samurai…
Pueblo’s Ken Ramos didn’t quite become a Major League Baseball star — but he was good enough to spend ten years in the pros and earn his way into the Pueblo Sports Hall of Fame. Now, however, the 48-year-old is dead in what the Pueblo coroner has determined was a…
We’ve been reporting about the disturbingly high number of officer-involved shootings in Colorado of late. Between Halloween and mid-December 2015, for example, eleven officer-involved shootings took place along the Front Range — and the pace of such incidents has remained troubling in 2016. Recall that late last month, we told you…
According to the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office, Joe Thompson reacted a woman leaving his car in the midst of an argument in an extreme way. By running over her. Indeed, the woman is said to have wound up underneath the vehicle after the incident, in which Thompson, 32, faces a…
Earlier this week, we told you about the search for Kenneth Bastidos, a suspect in a May 4 murder outside an Adams County motel. At this writing, there have been no reports about Bastidos’s capture. But a second man, Jose Ocampo, has been formally charged with first-degree murder after deliberation,…
The parents of mass murderers often refrain from speaking publicly about their homicidal children for long periods of time. Note that Sue Klebold, son of Columbine killer Dylan Klebold, waited for nearly seventeen years after the 1999 attack to sit for TV conversations in conjunction with a book, A Mother’s…
Fourth Judicial District Chief Judge Gilbert Martinez has found that Planned Parenthood shooter Robert Dear is incompetent to stand trial for a clinic attack that killed three people and injured twelve others in November 2015. Instead, he’ll be interred at the Colorado Mental Health Institute in Pueblo for reasons that are…
In 2015, the Denver Police Department began spreading the word about sexually violent predators in the city via YouTube. As we noted in our original post and an update in January, the use of social media to inform the community about SVPs — something required under Colorado law — has…
In January, we told you about the killing of Christa Benton by her boyfriend, David Fallon, who subsequently took his own life. We also highlighted Facebook posts Benton shared shortly before her death. They alluded to a physical fight, with one reading, “That a-hole tried to break my neck.” Now,…
In today’s high-tech world, the idea of a police blotter — a roundup of law-enforcement actions that includes calls both minor and major — seems positively quaint. But these chronicles frequently contain tales that underscore humanity’s essential weirdness. Take an item in the Colorado Springs Police Blotter in which a man was…
Last week, Westword Food & Drink’s Mark Antonation reported about the closure of Rosenberg’s Bagels & Deli following a fire in an apartment over the eatery — and the discovery of a body inside. The corpse was reportedly located inside a closet. More than a week later, Rosenberg’s is still shut…
This past December, we told you about the fatal police shooting of Phillip Munoz and the wounding of a SWAT officer, John Ruddy. Most readers likely surmised that Munoz shot Ruddy before losing his own life — but that wasn’t the case. According to a decision letter by Denver District…
