Nearly six months after the mass shooting in Aurora, Cinemark, the owner of the theater where the massacre occurred, is reopening the site to the public on Friday, sparking backlash from victims’ families. More debate could arise about some of the movies being screened for free over the weekend –…
Update: The Denver coroner’s office has identified the woman murdered Friday night on Pearl Street as Heather Hurd, a 44 year old from Littleton. One connection between Hurd and Clifford Fordyce, the man accused of killing her: They were friends on Facebook — an online relationship that hadn’t been going…
Periodically, we post about unsolved murders in Denver — and one of the ten cases we featured last May focused on the 1994 slaying of Jacqueline Gallegos. Now, however, a grand jury has indicted three men — Andre Jackson, Samuel Sims and Jackie McConnell — with the grisly and shocking…
At least eight lawsuits have been filed against Cinemark, owner of the Aurora Century 16, where twelve people were killed and seventy injured in a July 20 attack. (The theater will reopen tomorrow.) Now, however, a newly filed suit targets different parties: Dr. Lynne Fenton, who provided psychiatric care for…
Last August, just over a week after the Aurora theater shooting, we checked movie-ticket websites for the shuttered Aurora Century 16 and were shocked to discover that a user review making light of the tragedy was on the Movietimes.com page. With the theater set to reopen on Thursday, we looked…
His doctors have told Darrell Havens that surgery could help relieve his deteriorating condition, but the wheelchair-bound inmate’s keepers in the Colorado Department of Corrections aren’t exactly eager to okay the operation — or to release him to seek care on his own. Havens, who was left a quadriplegic by…
Since the tragic Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting, lawmakers across the country have been debating what policy solutions could help reduce the risk of a devastating massacre in the future. In Colorado, some Democratic legislators have proposed tighter restrictions on access to guns. But a few have a different idea…
Last week, we reported that a flash-mob protest at FlatIron Crossing in Broomfield quickly turned confrontational, resulting in five arrests. Organizers of the First Nations protest, which plans another rally tonight, are questioning why cops intervened, given that the mall has been the site of many peaceful flash mobs in…
This morning, Judge William Sylvester granted a defense motion to continue the arraignment of alleged Aurora theater shooter James Holmes until the week of March 12. But just after the brief hearing was adjourned, a man later identified as Steve Hernandez, father of victim Rebecca Wingo, who died in the…
The Aurora Century 16, where James Holmes allegedly killed twelve and injured seventy, is slated to reopen next Thursday, January 17. But the attempts by Century 16 owner Cinemark to move on haven’t stopped the shooting-related lawsuits against the firm that have appeared regularly over the past six months. The…
A judge has ruled that there’s enough evidence to try alleged Aurora theater shooter James Holmes for murder. Holmes is accused of killing twelve people and injuring seventy others by opening fire at the Century 16 theater on July 20. He’ll be back in court Friday at 9 a.m. for…
Through witness testimony, prosecutors this week laid out a timeline of the actions accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes took in the months before the July 20 attack. The earliest date mentioned was April 19, when he set up a Match.com profile. The last was July 19, when Holmes allegedly…
On the first day of Colorado’s legislative session, dueling protests competed for the attention of passersby on either side of Lincoln Street. As the crowd at the Capitol for a pro-guns rally grew, an anti-fracking group remained small. Still, both shouted, sometimes at the Capitol and a few times directly…
The Denver coroner’s office has released its list of homicides in Denver during 2012, and the total of forty is down from 47 in 2011. Indeed, 2011 saw forty homicides through the first three-quarters of that year, while 25 took place during the initial nine months of 2012. But that…
The Aurora theater shooting preliminary hearing of James Holmes and the tragic mass killing at a Newtown, Connecticut school have spawned calls for new and stricter gun laws. Against this backdrop comes news related to the bloodiest metro-area incident so far in 2013 — an Aurora triple murder in which…
Last year, Hani “Henry” Sawaged, owner of Daveco Liquors, which boasts of being the world’s largest liquor store, earned Schmuck of the Week honors after pleading guilty to a sales-tax underpayment scheme. He and two brothers, Ghassan and Bassam Sawaged, have now been ordered to pay well over $1 million…
A preliminary hearing for James Holmes, the accused Aurora theater shooter, concluded today, and numerous victims and members of the public were on site to watch. A lot of reporters were there, too, taking notes on the horrific details of the July 20 shooting — and given the chilling testimony,…
Secretary of State Scott Gessler is the subject of this week’s cover story in part because he’s facing criminal and ethics investigations for his alleged misuse of funds. On Monday, the state’s Independent Ethics Commission voted unanimously to continue its investigation despite his requests for dismissal. But that’s not his…
John Copeland is 85 years old and apparently walks with assistance from a cane — something we know because he’s been formally charged with using one to bash another man, age 66, in the head. And why did Copeland whack this not-so-young whippersnapper? Over a handicapped parking place…
Editor’s note: Melanie Asmar is covering day three of the preliminary hearing into the July 20 Aurora theater shooting allegedly committed by James Holmes. Sergeant Matthew Fyles continued his testimony by displaying photos James Holmes took of himself and the future crime scene…
Today is the first day of the new legislative session in Colorado — and in a clear sign of contentious debates to come, a group called Guns for Everyone is staging a “pro-gun rally” to counter expected firearms-control proposals from Democrats this cycle. Organizer Edgar Antillon, a former House district…
Editor’s note: Melanie Asmar is covering day two of the preliminary hearing into the July 20 Aurora theater shooting allegedly committed by James Holmes. The latest update is immediately below, followed by previous coverage. Update: The majority of the afternoon session was dominated by a listing of victims by name,…
