Subject: Shootings

• Monique's Story

  January 15, 2007

• Girl Interrupted

  October 16, 2006

• Cho's Columbine Martyrs

  April 19, 2007

• Another Shooting Case Closed

  November 5, 2007

• Matthew Murray's Threatening Posts Back on the Web

  December 11, 2007

• Mathew Murray Shooting God’s Plan?

  February 28, 2008

• More Pieces of the Matthew Murray Puzzle

  March 13, 2008

• Who Should Be the Keepers of Columbine's Remaining Secrets?

  March 18, 2008

• Tracie Keesee Named Head of Cop Research and Training

  April 21, 2008

• What's in a Name?

  May 6, 2008

• Denver Police Officer Being Charged with Assault has Been Disciplined Before

  May 9, 2008

• Back to School

  The bullet in the backpack and other Columbine mysteries.

  October 25, 2001

• More Whoppers from Jeffco

  The sheriff's office responds.

  October 25, 2001

• Family files lawsuit against the Denver Police Department for shooting death of Jason Gomez

  October 27, 2008

• The long silence of Matthew Murray's parents

  Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see any comments from Ronald or Loretta Murray in the one-year anniversary stories about the church shootings in Arvada and Colorado Springs. But then, the Murrays haven't been eager to talk publicly about the multiple tragedies spawned by their deeply disturbed son Matthew, who killed four young people on December 9, 2007, before taking his own life. That's understandable. The Murrays were clearly blindsided by their son's shooting spree and were said to be "

  December 8, 2008

• Off Limits

  December 14, 2000

• Off Limits

  February 1, 2001

• New Life Church shooting victim speaks out prior to Ted Haggard media tour

  Amid all the revelations connected with Ted Haggard's attempted resurrection on HBO and Oprah, the accusations of payoffs involving yet another young man lusted after by the former pastor ("Watch the KRDO report featuring Ted Haggard's latest accuser"), and assorted other sordidness, a greater bit of deception and denial at New Life Church has been largely overooked -- the conflicting stories about killer Matthew Murray's 2007 attack on the church and its aftermath. So kudos to KHOW's Pete

  January 28, 2009

• Mile High Murder, No. 8: Edgar Nunez died of a gunshot wound at Denver Health

  View Larger Map Earlier today, the Denver Police Department put out a release about a call made in regard to a reported shooting at the intersection of Bruce Randolph Avenue and York Street, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click "View Larger Map"). No victim was there, because family members had already transported him to Denver Health, where, according to the Denver Coroner's Office, he died late last night. His name was Edgar Nunez, and he was jus

  June 1, 2009

• Jel Was Here

  Two former Denver taggers are arrested in L.A.

  July 17, 2008

• Target Practice: Racism and Police Shootings Are No Game

  Are Denver cops trigger-happy for minorities? A video game might hold the answer.

  April 3, 2008

• Columbine: A True Crime Story author Jeff Kass sets book tour for other sites of school shootings

  Jeff Kass. Former Rocky Mountain News reporter Jeff Kass is the author of the other book about Columbine -- and while his effort, Columbine: A True Crime Story, has received only modest attention on a national level, he feels his account has much to recommend it over Columbine, local journalist Dave Cullen's better-known tome. He'll deliver this message in person locally, during a 6 p.m. Thursday, June 4 event at Campo de Fiori restaurant, at 300 Fillmore (call 303-377-7887 for details), as wel

  June 3, 2009

• The Bus Stops Here

  But should it? That's what witnesses to a November shooting would like to know.

  February 4, 1999

• Girl Crazy

  August 17, 2006

• It Happened One Night

  The Thanksgiving party started early. And then the shots rang out.

  January 19, 2006

• Last Chance

  Before Brad Braxton goes to a gangster's final destination, he has a choice to make.

  September 22, 2005

• Club Scout

  July 28, 2005

• A Lasting Tribute

  Finding the right words for a Columbine memorial.

  April 17, 2003

• Going Ballistic

  Tracing the bullets at Columbine.

  October 31, 2002

• In Search of Lost Time

  A long-hidden document helps clear a Denver cop -- and raises new questions about the official version of the Columbine attack.

  May 2, 2002

• There Ought to Be a Law

  Ten questions for the legislature's Columbine committee.

  March 7, 2002

• The Lost Command

  Sheriff Stone's report says his officers did everything right at Columbine. The evidence tells a different story.

  July 13, 2000

• Home Is Where the Hurt Is

  September 16, 1999

• DON'T LOOK NOW

  HE WATCHED A CRIME FROM HIS OFFICE WINDOW. NOW THEY'RE WATCHING HIM.SHOOT TO CHILL WILL WITNESS INTIMIDATION TURN THIS ASSAULT ON THE 16TH STREET MALL INTO AN OPEN-AND-SHUT CASE?

  February 1, 1995

• The Columbine effect: A horrific roster of school shootings since 1999

  The most resonant information that's come my way thus far today in relation to the anniversary of the April 20, 1999 shootings at Columbine High School was contained in an e-mail sent to Westword by Vicki Newell, a public-policy director with the Colorado PTA. It's a list of school shootings since 1999, as compiled by The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. The roster gathers 108 incidents since Columbine, synopsized with chilling banality. Many of them received relatively little publicity

  April 20, 2009

• Colorado Crimes: Arrest of suspect in Geneva Street shooting

  A Flickr photo There was more action involving the Aurora Police Department this weekend beyond the officer-involved shooting noted in this earlier blog. Corey Ray Albat, 21, who was being held in Hays, Kansas, on an unrelated warrant, has been arrested on a first-degree-murder charge related to a shooting that took place at the 500 block of Geneva Street shortly after midnight on May 9. Read the details in the APD press-release on view after the jump.

  May 11, 2009

• Colorado Crimes: Victim identified in the Geneva Street shooting

  A Flickr photo Monday, the Aurora Police Department reported that Corey Ray Albat, 21, was being held in connection with the murder of an unidentified man on the 500 block of Geneva Street. Today, the name of the victim is being released: Kyle Lathrop, 23. No additional information is available at this time. Click "Continue" to read the updated release.

  May 12, 2009

• Mile High Murder, No. 2: Broomfield police shoot man who killed his wife

  View Larger Map The release from the Broomfield Police Department sported the most routine of subject lines: "Domestic Violence Call." But it was clearly not a standard incident. According to the BPD, a Broomfield man living at 13005 Lowell Boulevard, along a stretch of the street captured in the graphic above (if you have trouble seeing the image, click "View Larger Map"), was shot and killed by local police after he did the same to his wife. At this point, Broomfield spokesman Mark Goodell is

  May 26, 2009

• Mile High Murder, No. 13: Man shot in head at 2400 block of South Federal

  View Larger Map The bloodshed continues. According to the Denver Police Department, a man who was shot in the head on the 2400 block of South Federal, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click "View Larger Map"). He died early this morning at Denver Health Medical Center. The official release can be viewed below.

  June 6, 2009

• Mile High Murder, No. 24: Another July 4 homicide -- this one at 14954 East Elk Place in Montbello

  View Larger Map Most of us were able to celebrate Independence Day without capping each other -- but not everyone. Earlier today, we told you about a slaying late yesterday on the 1700 block of Billings Street in Aurora. Now comes word from the Denver Police Department about an exchange of gunfire that resulted in one death -- this one taking place at 14954 East Elk Place, in an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click "View Larger Map"). At the time of t

  July 5, 2009

• Man fatally shot during robbery attempt at 9400 East Colfax in Aurora

  View Larger Map More gunplay and, at this point, more questions than answers revolving around a robbery on the 9400 block of East Colfax, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click "View Larger Map"). According to the Aurora Police Department, officers responded to the call after a suspect had split -- and they subsequently learned that a man shot during the incident died at a thus-far-unidentified hospital. At this point, the release doesn't make it cle

  July 6, 2009

• Brian Lamont Lane identified as dead man, two men arrested in robbery at 9445 E. Colfax

  View Larger Map Information has been dribbling out about a robbery attempt at a cigarette and check-cashing store at 9445 E. Colfax that resulted in one man being fatally shot; the area is captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click "View Larger Map"). Now, the Aurora Police Department is offering a lot more details. Brian Lamont Lane has been ID'd as the man capped by a store employee, while two of his compatriots, Anthony Dean Daniels and Kathleen Yvonne Jones,

  July 8, 2009

• Mile High Murder, No. 23: Macwinston Dowthard was man killed in shooting at 1700 Billings Street

  View Larger Map A man shot and killed July 4 on the 1700 block of Billings Street, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click "View Larger Map"), has been identified as forty-year-old Aurora resident Macwinston Dowthard. At this point, that's pretty much all representatives of the Aurora Police Department are saying about the case. See for yourself by reading the latest APD release below:

  July 8, 2009

• Mile High Murder, No. 26: Gerome Brooks and Welton Harris charged in Montview Bar slaying

  View Larger Map More information about a July 22 shooting that left a man dead at Montview Bar and Grill, 11680 Montview Boulevard, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click "View Larger Map"). Gerome Brooks, 25, and Welton L. Harris, 29, have been charged in the crime. The victim has been identified as Allen Pounds, 50. Look below to read Aurora Police Department releases about Pounds and the incident itself, as well as the arrests of Brooks and Harri

  August 3, 2009

• Mile High Murder, No. 29: Four shot, one dead near Aurora's Street Soldiers Motorcycle Club

  View Larger Map Another murder that took place in late July.... Early on July 25, Aurora Police Department representatives responded to a call at Street Soldiers Motorcycle Club on the 9500 block of East Colfax, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click "View Larger Map"). They found two women and two men suffering from gunshot wounds -- and while three of this quartet survived, the fourth, a woman, died from her injuries. Read the official APD release

  August 3, 2009

• Mile High Murder: A grisly list of 23 Denver homicides through July 4

  Ivory Mefford, number eleven on the Denver Coroner's Office roster.​The Denver Coroner's Office recently issued a list of all deaths ruled homicides in the city from the beginning of 2009 through July 4. The predictably grim chronicle of 23 individuals who lost their lives in acts of violence offers some useful (and often disturbing) data. Only two of the dead were females and just four are identified as white; eleven were Hispanics, seven were African-American, and one was Native American

  August 4, 2009

• Colorado Crimes: Brian Christopher Naranjo shouldn't have drawn that gun

  Brian Christopher Naranjo.​The press releases issued in the wake of yesterday's officers-involved shooting suggest that Longmont resident Brian Christopher Naranjo, 35, had numerous opportunities to avoid getting shot and killed. Naranjo, who's been arrested in the past for everything from forgery to menacing (and was wanted on a failure-to-appear traffic charge), led cops on a chase through Longmont, and after being brought to a halt by an intentional crash, he reacted to a shotgun blast

  August 11, 2009

• At Club Posh, the fun ends when the gunfire starts

  Photo by Drew JaynesSome of the revelers at the Club Posh grand opening in February -- none of whom were injured in the drinking of this beverage.​Club Posh, at 4040 E. Evans, debuted on February 20, and judging by our slideshow from opening night, a good time was had by all. But the fun was less universal during the early hours of November 1, when Halloween revelry ended with three shooting victims: one found by Denver Police Department representatives right away, another discovered a sho

  November 2, 2009

• Mile High Murder, No. 47: Roger William Harris identified as victim in Sunrise Restaurant shooting

  The late Roger William Harris.​On Friday, a man suffering from what would soon prove to be fatal wounds was found behind the Sunrise Restaurant, 9115 East Colfax. The Aurora Police Department is now identifying the victim as Roger William Harris, 35, and offering a $2,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of his killer or killers. Look at the latest details and the initial batch of info below:

  November 3, 2009

• Mile High Murder, No. 49: John Singleton dies of wounds in Club Posh shootings

  Photo by Drew JaynesA Club Posh graphic from our opening night slideshow.​Earlier this week, we told you about shootings at Club Posh, 4040 E. Evans, which turned a Halloween party into a true horror show. Now, one of the trio who took bullets that evening -- John Singleton, 29 -- has died of his wounds. Still no suspects according to the Denver Police Department. For a look at a happier moment in Club Posh's history, check out a slideshow of its debut in February -- and read the DPD's re

  November 6, 2009