CHIEF: POLICE AND SUSPECT WERE TRAPPED TOGETHER
The two police officers who shot and killed a machete-wielding man Oct. 5 on the University of Colorado campus were trapped in a stairwell with the suspect, and fired their weapons when he ignored their orders and quickly advanced on them, Boulder police Chief Greg Testa said.
In a presentation on his office’s approach to issues including police bias and use of lethal force, Testa on Tuesday offered the Boulder City Council his understanding of the incident that left the man — ex-Marine Brandon Simmons, 28, of Thornton — dead inside the school’s Champions Center earlier this month.
Fourteen CU officers and nine city officers responded that morning.
Authorities search for shooting suspect.
Police in Federal Heights are searching for a suspect wanted in a shooting Thursday morning at a mobile home park.
Julian Jose Richards is suspected in the investigation. Officers were called about 11:15 a.m. on reports of a shooting at Countryside Village Mobile Home Park on the 9800 block of North Federal Boulevard where they found a person with a gunshot wound. Further information on the wounded person’s condition was not released.
Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to call the Federal Heights Police Department at 303-428-8833.
Robbers hit home, 7-Eleven in Springs.
Armed robbers donning Halloween masks and dark clothing hit a Colorado Springs home and a 7-Eleven in a two-hour span early Thursday morning, according to separate police reports.
The two Colorado Springs police reports, both by officers in the department’s Sand Creek Division, mentioned the similar circumstances in each robbery without saying whether detectives believed the two robberies were related. The reports did not indicate if anyone was arrested.
Lakewood store sells Lotto jackpot. A Lotto
jackpot winning ticket worth almost $10 million was sold Wednesday night in Lakewood.
The winning ticket, which will fetch $9,913,069, was purchased at a 7-Eleven store at West Alameda Avenue and Garrison Street, according to Colorado Lottery officials.
All six numbers, 3, 4, 5, 9, 14, 36, were matched on the Lotto prize. The Lotto grand prize starts a $1 million. The jackpot grew because of 50 consecutive drawings without a jackpot winner. The lucky winner has 180 days to claim the bounty. Denver