Earlier today, we pointed out that the family of eighty-year-old Dean Withers, who was stabbed at a north metro King Soopers earlier this week, would be holding a press conference in Westminster; Ryan Patrick Nichols, who suffers from schizophrenia, is being held in the incident. Following the event, the Westminster…
As noted in a recent blog, local media seems to care more when white people are shot, and often provides comparatively little coverage when Hispanics or African-Americans like those who dominate a list of Denver homicide victims during the first half of 2009 are slain. That was certainly the case…
At 10:30 a.m. this morning, the family of Dean Withers, an 80-year-old man stabbed in the back at a north metro King Soopers, will hold a press conference at the Westminster Public Safety Center, where a photograph of the victim will be made available. In the meantime, the family of…
This is one of those a-picture’s-worth-a-thousand-words moments. Which is nice, because I’ll be able to cut back on typing. According to the Denver Police Department, officers responded to an August 9 report of a stabbing at 3240 W. Alameda. A wounded man found there later died of his injuries –…
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…
Yesterday, we shared a video of protests that took place at a healthcare town hall staged by Representative Ed Perlmutter at a Brighton King Soopers — an event at which feverish, easily manipulated Obamacare haters carried signs featuring slogans such as “Seniors: Get Your Death Pills Here.” In the clip,…
Some crimes are understandable — like, say, a starving child stealing a piece of fruit. And other crimes aren’t — among them, stabbing an 80-year-old man in the back. Ryan Patrick Nichols, 26, has been accused of doing the latter, and the nastiness of the crime, which took place at…
The Snowboard Bandits, who we wrote about last year, terrorized Front Range banks in 2007 and 2008. They were clever enough to disguise themselves in full-body snowboarder gear, but made a slip-up or two once the heists were over — like, for example, trying to launder the money by actually…
Firefighters are supposed to save kids, not endanger them. But if accusations against Shane Hayden, 33, are accurate, he reversed the order of this mission in an especially vile way. Last month, according to the Parker Police Department, Hayden contacted an underage girl online and eventually set up a meeting…
Yesterday, the Lakewood Police Department announced that it was investigating a house fire last week on West 20th Avenue as a homicide; Bonni Bergin, 49, who’d been renting the home, was found dead inside. Now, the LPD has made an arrest. Brit Allan Cox, 40, has been formally accused of…
View Larger Map On Wednesday, we told you about a murder in the alley between the 1400 blocks of Ogden and Emerson, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). Denver Police subsequently arrested Charles Garlick, 26, in relation to…
View Larger Map This just in from the Adams County District Attorney’s Office. Late yesterday, Kevin Duane Stunes was convicted of first-degree murder for killing Nancy Bannock last Thanksgiving at 1616 E. 78th Avenue, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View…
Reminder: Doing a really idiotic thing can have a lifetime’s worth of repercussions. Exhibit A: Daniel Lujan, who received a thirty-year sentence yesterday for responding to an argument over a bicycle sale last year by firing a shot that perforated an eight-year-old girl (she recovered, but only after multiple surgeries)…
Last week, Bonnie Bergin’s body was found amid flames that destroyed a house she was renting on West 20th Avenue in Lakewood — and now, the Lakewood Police Department has formally determined that she was murdered. At this point, the LPD isn’t releasing her cause of death, which suggests Bergin,…
Wednesday’s blog “Does Denver Media Care More When White People are Shot” focused on Randall Waggoner, who wound up shutting down Mineral Avenue in Littleton for hours after a murder/suicide attempt that failed on the former count (his estranged wife, Christina, remains alive, albeit in critical condition) but ultimately succeeded…
Allen Andrade, the 32-year-old convicted in April of murdering transgender Greeley teen Angie Zapata, has a MySpace page. A disturbing one that alternates Christian imagery, hate-speak and pleas not to judge him. It appears to have been set up by one of Andrade’s siblings. (He has at least two sisters,…
View Larger Map Another early morning weekday killing, this one in the alley between the 1400 blocks of Ogden and Emerson, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). Denver Police subsequently arrested Charles Garlick, 26. He’s being held in…
That old saying, “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree”? It’s appropriate in the case of Julia Martinez and Monica Guardado, if a little too quaint — especially given that weapons are involved. According to the Denver District Attorney’s Office, which has charged both women with assault, Guardado, 21,…
Yesterday’s Denver-based TV newscasts were top-heavy with packages about a failed murder-suicide involving Randall Waggoner, 38, and Christina Waggoner, 35, both of Highlands Ranch — and this morning, the reports remain high on the list of local stories accessible at the web homes of Channel 7 and Channel 9, among…
That was quick. Earlier today, we told you about a roommate-on-roommate shooting at 5300 W. Arizona Avenue in Lakewood. Now comes word that the Lakewood Police Department has arrested Kalani Opana, 54, in relation to the crime, which left one man dead and another injured. As for the photo included…
According to the Aurora Police Department, teamwork helped ensnare a man accused of a murder that took place the better part of a year ago. Last November, Angela Ball, 33, was found dead at the Winsor Court Apartments, 10990 East 16th Avenue. Breaks in the case were rare until last…
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…
