Filing: Man threatened to kill roommate
DENVER — A college student accused of killing his roommate and another person in a University of Colorado-Colorado Springs dorm room last week told his roommate a month earlier that he would “kill him” if he was asked to take out the trash again, according to a court document released Friday.
The dispute in early January was reported to campus police and housing officials but there is no indication in court documents that university officials made any attempt to remove the suspect from the room despite multiple reports of conflicts, including the threat.
Chris Valentine, a spokesperson for the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, said because of the ongoing investigation and federal student privacy laws, the university couldn’t “provide any additional information about the people involved in this incident.”
The new details about the shooting and the threat were included in an arrest affidavit that was unsealed by a judge after charges against the suspect, Nicholas Jordan, 25, of Detroit, were announced during a court hearing Friday.
Jordan is charged with two counts of first-degree murder, felony menacing and committing a crime of violence in the Feb. 16 killing of his roommate, Samuel Knopp, 24, of Parker, Colo., and Celie Rain Montgomery, 26, of Pueblo, Colo., in a dorm room at the university.
Jordan’s lawyer, Nick Rogers, objected to the document’s release.
Jordan was eager to have a hearing on the evidence as soon as possible, even though his lawyers, who are public defenders, had asked for it to be delayed because their office was recently hit by a cyberattack. Shakes agreed to schedule it March 27.