The bloodshed continues — and in this case, the victim of a homicide was a family doctor simply trying to aid a woman in distress. Following two fatal shootings on Sunday (one in Denver, the other in Northglenn) and just prior to a stabbing on the 16th Street Mall last…
Yesterday, in reporting about two metro-area shootings — a motorcyclist killed in Denver, a man dead in Northglenn — we noted the unfortunate correlation between warmer weather and violent crimes. Tuesday night, that phenomenon reared its head again on the 16th Street Mall. A stabbing took place on the 16th…
One of the most controversial Colorado stories of 2015 involved a sexting scandal at Canon City High School in which more than 100 students were implicated. At first, authorities hinted that those involved might be prosecuted — but in the end, no criminal charges were pressed. In contrast, Aaron Belanger is…
The Facebook pages of Savanna Grose and Chris Tafoya are tributes to loving parenting. Grose’s intro reads: “I am the luckiest momma in the whole entire world! My daughter is the most amazing person I know!” And Tafoya’s gallery is dominated by photos of him with the couple’s adorable little…
It’s a sad but inescapable annual trend. As the weather warms up, the number of metro-area shootings tends to rise. Witness two fatal incidents that took place yesterday. The first took the life of a motorcyclist in Denver. The second killed a man in Northglenn. The Denver matter is being…
A civil action was filed this week accusing District 6 Commander Tony Lopez of violating protester Jessica Benn’s constitutional rights when he seized her cell phone as she recorded her husband’s arrest last April. The suit claims Lopez and the Denver Police Department violated her First Amendment right to record “newsworthy…
The father of the Taxpayers Bill of Rights is back in jail. Last week Douglas Bruce was sentenced to two years in prison for violating probation, the latest chapter in a checkered past that the Gazette captured in its cover story, “A Greek Tragedy: The Rise and Fall of TABOR…
Former East High School student Elhadji Samba Dioum has taken a plea deal in a criminal trial connected to a police lockdown that occurred on East High’s campus on December 3. On Friday, March 25, Dioum pleaded guilty to third-degree assault – a misdemeanor – as part of a deal…
In February 2015, we told you about a death on Java Court that was being investigated as a homicide. The victim was later identified as Francis Canham, known to friends and neighbors as Frank. Within days, Daniel Gonzales was arrested for the crime even though he’d traveled across the country;…
The phrase “justice delayed is justice denied” doesn’t quite fit cold cases. In such instances, convictions of guilty parties are always preferable to situations in which offenders are never punished for their illegal actions. But the story of one woman’s abuse at the hands of Warren Foster represents a close…
On occasion, we warn readers in advance about potentially disturbing material in a post. We do so again in the case of Colby Messer — and we really, really mean it. According to an arrest affidavit, Messer, a Canadian citizen, has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman he met in…
It wasn’t long ago that Ty Lawson was the face of the Denver Nuggets, who promoted him as one of the premier point guards in the NBA. Now, he’s barely playing for his third team in less than a year — and he’s just been convicted of driving under the…
The inclement weather currently pounding the Denver metro area aren’t idea when it comes to investigating an officer-involved shooting in which one man died. But that’s precisely what’s happening at this hour. Late last night, cops with the Thornton Police Department killed a thus-far-unnamed individual. He first came to an…
Lauren Mann, who grew up in the small, Western Colorado town of Paonia, is making news across the planet for the worst possible reason. She was found dead in her apartment in Vienna, where she was working as an au pair, and police are investigating the case as a homicide…
Last month, we told you about accusations against Rocky Allen, a surgical technician whose alleged theft of the painkiller fentanyl led to fears that as many as 3,000 patients of Swedish Medical Center could have been infected by hepatitis B and C or HIV. Now, another medical professional — Kim Burgans,…
Jessica Lyn Reese was the loving mom of two adorable kids, Hannah and Bennie Jo. Now, her loved ones are raising funds to care for the children. Why? Reese, 29, was stabbed to death in an Aurora condominium — and Charles Bowman Anthony, who was at the residence at the time…
“You never know how in one instance life may change course.” A family member reportedly Facebooked this line shortly after twenty-year-old Jahvell Forrest was arrested for allegedly shooting an Aurora police officer during a November 2014 traffic stop. But while the bust certainly altered Forrest’s trajectory in a permanent way…
The current Facebook profile pic for eighteen-year-old Niraj Gautam features him flipping off the camera in the front seat behind the superimposed phrase “Frontseat Freestyles.” Under most circumstances, the image would be unobjectionable. But its timing is unfortunate given the allegations Gautam is facing. He’s been formally charged with vehicular…
On Monday in Trinidad, Ralph Candelario is scheduled to go on trial for the murder of his wife, Pam, more than two years ago in the small town of Walsenburg — and Dateline NBC is among the news operations planning to cover it. Why? Because given the current vogue in true-crime,…
“Thank God for stupid teenage girls and social media.” So said Mason Deal after a jury convicted Steven Paula of punching him out in a road rage incident that we featured in a Schmuck of the Week post in 2014 — and for a very good reason. Turns out the…
How can an obscure prisoner get famous? By attacking a more famous one. That happened for Mark “Slim” Daniels, who assaulted James Holmes in a Colorado prison, then wrote our Alan Prendergast a letter apologizing for not being able to send the Aurora theater shooter to “Satan’s lake of fire.” And…
As we reported last week, the United States government recently agreed to pay $175,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of Robert Knott, a severely mentally ill inmate who committed suicide in 2013 while in solitary confinement at the U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum (ADX), the federal supermax in Florence…
