Update below: During a just-completed news conference about last night’s shooting at the Aurora Town Center Century 16 during a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises, Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates was asked by numerous national reporters to confirm reports that accused gunman James Holmes had identified himself as…
Prepare your jaw to drop. In the wake of the shooting at the Aurora Town Center Century 16 during a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises, the word “Aurora” began to trend on Twitter. Shortly thereafter, Celeb Boutique speculated by tweet that the reason had to do with one…
In a post about the post-Columbine tragedy rumor mill, Alan Prendergast notes that people who share a name with James Holmes, the accused shooter in the attack on an Aurora theater screening The Dark Knight Rises, would likely be inaccurately targeted via their Facebook page. And so it came to…
Editor’s note: Sam Levin is at Gateway High School, near the scene of the Aurora Century 16 theater shooting. People continue to gather at Gateway High School, where witnesses were taken after the attack — among them more and more panicked individuals trying to find out whether friends and loved…
Twitter lets folks from all walks of life to share their thoughts about tragedies like the shooting at the Aurora Town Center Century 16, celebrities included. Many stars who’ve weighed in have connections to Colorado, including Olympic hopeful Missy Franklin, The Fray and budding minister Peter Tebow (nothing from Tim…
We can now give you a look at James Holmes, the man in custody in the wake of a shooting at the Aurora Town Center Century 16 during a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises. This is a more recent shot, while one below is from a San Diego…
In the aftershocks of the shootings at an Aurora theater that left twelve dead and dozens wounded, it’s inevitable that the tragedy would evoke comparisons to the 1999 attack on Columbine High School. Certainly, the instant online speculation about the shooter and his motives is eerily reminiscent of all the…
Update below: You’d think that even partisan zealots would know when to muzzle themselves following a tragedy on the scale of the shooting at the Aurora Town Center Century 16 during a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises. But not Neal Boortz, a right-wing talk-show host heard on five…
“His apartment is apparently booby-trapped.” Those were the words of Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates moments ago as he briefed the press about the apartment of James Holmes, 24, the shooter at the The Dark Knight Rises premiere at Century Aurora 16 early this morning. Holmes, who is in police…
The front page of Reddit.com right now is topped by this story: “i am one of the 50 wounded in the aurora theatre shooting. here are a few photos of my very lucky but nonethless terrifying brush with death. my thoughts go out to those less fortunate than me.” Below…
The City of Aurora and its booster group, Visit Aurora, have been working hard to advance the city’s profile, pushing the upstart suburb just east of Denver out from under the shadow of its older, bigger sibling and making it a household name across the country. Today it is. But…
Update: Family members and friends on Twitter are identifying one of the victims of the shooting at the Aurora Town Center Century 16 during a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises as Jessica Ghawi, a 104.3 The Fan intern who tweeted under the name Jessica Redfield. Chillingly, her last…
Overnight, a gunman opened fire during a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises at the Aurora Town Center Century 16 movie complex. At this writing (and these numbers could well change, and change soon), fourteen people are confirmed dead, with an estimated fifty wounded, some said to be in…
Luke Irvin Chrisco, who became known last summer as the Boulder porta-potty peeper, has been found competent to stand trial — even if it seems like no person in his right mind would choose such a venue to get his creep on. But strange as that was, someone else pulled…
The 1996 Boulder murder of JonBenét Ramsey was one of the biggest stories in the country for years, and questions about the unsolved case continue to be asked, albeit at a lower volume than was heard a decade and a half ago. Note that former detective A. James Kolar’s Foreign…
Deonte Crews, an eighteen-year-old “self-admitted” gang member, has been arrested and charged with attempted murder for shooting into a group of people standing in a yard at 4490 North Dillon Street in Montbello on July 12. A probable cause statement on view below says Crews is a member of the…
“Not so glad to be home,” Greeley high school teacher Rhonda Eisenberg wrote on the wall of her Facebook page this past Saturday, after returning from an enjoyable trip to Lake Dillon and Vail. But she may have a different point of view on that sentiment this morning, given that…
Update: Only hours after we posted about Brian Hedglin, a man sought by Colorado Springs authorities in the murder of Christina Cornejo (he was on bond for having allegedly harassing her earlier this year), he ended his life in a blaze of infamy. Hedglin reportedly tried to hijack a plane…
Within the past month, with the explanation that “spring and summer are very active times for Gypsy-related criminal activities,” a letter has circulated under the auspices of the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office warning area residents against “Gypsy Scams.” When the warning reached attorneys at the Colorado ACLU, the civil rights…
The profile picture on Jacob Vanderbeek’s Facebook page portrays a goofy young man with an obvious sense of humor — and there’s a certain cheek about his actions of July 14 as described by the Lake County Sheriff’s Office. Too bad they led to a high-speed car chase that ended…
A short time ago, we reported about a Sunday night homicide in Aurora that probably took place near East Second Avenue and Peoria, although police aren’t positive about the location just yet. About an hour afterward, another man was shot dead in the city, likely on the 1500 block of…
It’s been a bloody spring in Aurora, and last night, it got a lot bloodier thanks to not one but two homicide within an hour or so of each other. The first of these probably took place after 10 p.m. yesterday, but at this writing, Aurora police aren’t certain where…
