There’s no coherent explanation yet for seventeen-year-old T.J. Lane’s attack on Chardon High School in Ohio on Monday, which killed three students and injured two others — and the “why” may prove elusive for some time to come. The shootings have been treated as utterly random, although recent reports suggest…
At last report, Bill Johnson and his two kids — a five-year-old girl and a sixteen-month-old boy — continue clinging to life after one of the most shocking examples of domestic violence in recent memory. Northglenn Police believe that Johnson assaulted his estranged wife before barricading her outside a duplex…
How did police locate Dominique Redwood, who’s just been convicted of sexual assault and more in relation to a brutal daylight incident at a light-rail station? By tracing the victim’s phone, which was found to contain the number of the man who called himself “Baby Showkase.”…
Perrish Cox is no longer a member of the Denver Broncos. The team cut him in September, allegedly because of on-field issues, and not because he had been charged with two sex crimes after allegedly fathering the child of his rape victim. The accusation is scheduled to be explored in…
Yesterday, a member of the Englewood Police Department shot and killed a man outside a Walgreens store. And the dead man was notorious long before he breathed his last. Jeremiah Barnum was at the center of what former Westword writer Jared Jacang Maher once described as “Denver’s most famous hate-crime…
At a certain age, kids want to go to public restrooms unaccompanied. But parents always worry about bad things happening there — and the story of David Rigoulot illustrates why. Rigoulot has been given a three-years-to-life sentence for entering a bathroom stall with an eight-year old and touching his genitals…
Apparently marijuana isn’t as easy for teens to get as pot opponents argue. Otherwise, would there be a market for spice, also known as synthetic marijuana? Police believe the demand was high at a Sun Mart near East High School — the site of a prominent bust in which investigators…
It was almost three years ago that I first got interested in the case of Tara Perry, subject of this week’s feature, “The Girl Who Fell to Earth.” Perry was among several inmates considered strong candidates for clemency — all of whom were serving disproportionately long sentences and appeared to…
Lupo Solazzo apparently has pretty bad aim — and thank goodness for that. He’s now pleaded guilty for an incident that found him firing off 350 shots without hitting any of the approximately 100 police officers in the vicinity…
Tara Perry, the subject of this week’s cover story, “The Girl Who Fell to Earth,” has made a remarkable turnaround since she was first incarcerated thirteen years ago, at the age of sixteen. Corrections staff, teachers and others view her as a model of rehabilitation, one who’s tried to transform…
Samuel Govea didn’t wait around to be properly released from Denver Health Medical Center. Instead, he checked himself out — a matter of some concern for authorities, given that he was being held on behalf of the Denver Sheriff’s Office for a slew of offenses that led to him being…
Hassan Mayo is the latest alleged Denver-area pimp to be sentenced for human trafficking — an offense that’s earned him a sixteen-year stay at the Cross Bar Hotel His most shocking offense? He reportedly sold a woman to another pimp for $400…
Update: The Denver coroner’s office has identified the man who died after a shooting near 36th and Hudson on Valentine’s Day as Serril Allen, nineteen. He was transported to a hospital with a gunshot wound to his chest. By the way, a web search pulls up hits for a Serril…
This arrives a little late for Valentine’s Day, but Louie Lucero has an unusual approach to romance that’s bound to send any female into orbit — and probably to the hospital. The southwest Colorado man, who has a history of domestic violence cases and is currently on trial for assault…
Lauren Redfern ignored that old warning about how you can never go home again. A star basketball player for Basalt High School prior to her 2004 graduation, she took over as the squad’s head coach in 2010 and worked as a health teacher. Now, however, she’s expected to be processed…
Reports of random assaults in Boulder understandably sow fear among residents, and no wonder, given the large number of young women who attend the University of Colorado. Unfortunately, bogus claims have the same effect — and the Boulder Police Department has now accused two women, Allyson Manley and Nina Fiorillo,…
A shopping trip Kenny and Kathleen Sanchez took with their daughter led to their arrest for child abuse. No, they didn’t strike her in public or anything like that. Rather, it was the girl’s appearance that raised concern. The three-year-old weighed just nineteen pounds…
Is 53-year-old Stephan Mitchell a crook or a good Samaritan, albeit one who wanted to get paid? The folks at the Boulder Police Department have expressed their opinion clearly, busting Mitchell for theft in relation to a missing cell phone he says he found…
This morning, a freshman girl at Columbine High School allegedly attacked two fellow students with a hammer. It’s a story that would likely have remained local had it happened elsewhere. But because the incident took place at Columbine, outlets from ABC to the Sydney Morning Herald are covering it. Which…
Just Friday in this space, we talked about the growing epidemic of serious metro-area hit and run accidents in the context of updates on the Jenna Breen and Tim Albo crashes. A February 11 incident continued this trend by way of a chain reaction smash-up that led to the arrest…
Age is only a number — one that needn’t stop any of us from being active. Take Barbara West, who allegedly didn’t let her 73 years on earth prevent her from driving the getaway car in a burglary — and attempting to outrun the cops…
The Denver District Attorney’s Office has now formally charged James Bradley, 32, with attempted first-degree assault for a bizarre incident involving a hammer attack on a police officer back on December 4. Why such a delay? No doubt due to Bradley’s condition. The officer shot him, and as detailed in…
