Woman shot dead after possible ambush on East 36th Avenue (No. 13)

Update below: As the temperatures have heated up, so has metro-area violence. In recent days, Montae Davis died after a shooting near Fairfax Liquors and Cesar Reyes was arrested for an Aurora triple shooting over the weekend. The latest homicide: A possible ambush shooting on East 36th Avenue that wounded…

Robert Wallace shooting: Make My Day law meets Gran Torino

The Robert Wallace case has all the trademarks of a justice-gone-awry tale. When Wallace, an 81-year-old Wheat Ridge resident, saw two men trying to steal his trailer this past February, he opened fire, hitting one of the men in the head. But the person busted in the shooting’s immediate aftermath…

Denver homicide roster: See where all 16 of them happened

The Denver coroner’s office has released its list of homicides in Denver for the first half of 2010 — sixteen deaths. Some of those listed include straight-forward slayings , like the case of Douglass Singleton, who was allegedly killed by Peter Bellar in a marijuana transaction gone wrong. Others are…

John Hickenlooper loses ten years by working out

We knew working out is good for you, but this is ridiculous. According to a “What’s Your Workout” story in the July 6 Wall Street Journal, exercise helped Mayor John Hickenlooper not only shave off ten pounds, but ten years — since the article initially said he was 48 years…

Leo Garcia: Did he kidnap his grandson, Matthew Garcia?

Kidnappings of the child-custody variety are all too common these days. But they don’t often involve disagreements between grandparents. That seems to be what’s happening in the case of Matthew Garcia, eight, whose grandfather, Leo Garcia, is suspected of taking him. Look below to see a photo of Matthew, as…

Bulldog killer still at large: Was Conrad targeted for drowning?

Animal cruelty cases don’t get much more inexplicable than this one: Arapahoe County’s Lopez family returned from an outing this past weekend to discover Conrad, their pet English bulldog, dead in a partially filled bathtub. The case is so uncommon that Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson isn’t even sure how…