Update: The Denver Police Department has released mug shots of Dexter Lewis, Joseph Hill and Lynell Hill, the three men suspected of killing five people at Fero’s Bar & Grill early Wednesday morning and then setting the business on fire. We’re also getting a closer look at the victims –…
This week’s cover story, “Lethal Election,” reports on one of the most keenly fought local contests in Colorado this fall, the race for district attorney in the state’s largest judicial district. Since Carol Chambers is term-limited, the winner in the 18th District (which includes Arapahoe, Douglas, Elbert and Lincoln counties)…
Antoine Wallace was in the midst of serving a 218-month sentence at the United States Penitentiary in Florence when he stood before a judge earlier this month. Now, he’ll be behind bars for a lot longer. The 39-year-old career criminal has been sentenced to another sixty years in a horrific…
What with the shocking quintuple murder at Fero’s Bar & Grill and the discovery of Ari Misha Liggett with a dismembered body in his car, the violence in the metro area has been off the charts. This may explain the relatively little attention paid thus far to yet another Denver…
Prosecutors in the James Holmes case can access Holmes’s application to the University of Colorado, documents relating to his withdrawal from the neuroscience program just weeks before the Aurora theater shooting and campus police records they say they “probably” have, Arapahoe County District Judge William Sylvester has ruled…
James Holmes’s lawyers are asking to postpone a hearing set for October 25 because they need more time to prepare. One of the main reasons given for this request involves the amount of time it takes to deal with media requests that additional information be made public…
Last month, three survivors of the Aurora theater shooting filed lawsuits against Cinemark, owner of the Century 16, where the July 20 massacre took place. Cinemark has filed to dismiss these claims — but another has just arrived. Marc Bern, whose New York law firm has won a big settlement…
Eric Decker had some ups and downs in the Broncos’ win over the Chargers last night — catching a sure touchdown pass before inexplicably falling down, and later scoring a TD in an impressive act of will. But he’s familiar with emotional swings, having lived through a school shooting –…
Today’s nominee in the tightly contested “Worst Friend Ever” category is Alan Glen Smith, who has a very good chance of a hefty stretch in the hoosgow for one of the creepiest schemes in recent memory. The plan is said to have involved drugging a pal so that he could…
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…
