Fero's Bar & Grill the site of "arson-homicide" -- with five dead

Patricia Calhoun October 17, 2012 7:59AM

Fero's Bar & Grill is a longtime dive on the edge of Glendale, a place to get a quick drink before the movies or a cheap steak if you're staying at a hotel in the area. Over the decades, it's kept a low profile -- until now.

As Denver Police Chief Robert White revealed at a press conference at 5:30 a.m. this morning, five people were found dead at Fero's early this morning, in what's being investigated as "an arson-homicide."

According to White, the Glendale Fire Department had gotten a call at 1:50 a.m. this morning about a fire at Fero's, 357 South Colorado Boulevard. Firefighters raced to the scene, and discovered five fatalities -- four females and one male -- all with what White described as "some trauma" to their bodies.

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Find more details about the crime in this story that Michael Roberts posted on Latest Word earlier this morning.

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Patricia Calhoun co-founded Westword in 1977; she’s been the editor ever since. She’s a regular on the weekly CPT12 roundtable Colorado Inside Out, played a real journalist in John Sayles’s Silver City, once interviewed President Bill Clinton while wearing flip-flops, and has been honored with numerous national awards for her columns and feature-writing.

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