BURNED TRIO WAS DOING ROUTINE WORK
GREELEY» Authorities say three workers were performing routine maintenance when they were injured in a fire at an oil site in northern Colorado.
The Greeley Tribune reported one DCP Midstream employee and two contractors were burned in the fire east of Galeton on Thursday afternoon. Their names and conditions have not been released.
Briggsdale Fire Chief James Dilka says the workers were near a DCP pipeline when the fire broke out. Two company trucks also were burned.
Investigators have not said what caused the fire, which is being classified as an industrial accident.
The well site is owned by PDC Energy Corp.
Shooting victim ID’d as teenager.
A person fatally shot in Denver on Thursday night was identified Friday as a teenager.
Ivah Hamilton, 17, was shot at about 7:45 p.m. and taken from the 3200 block of Colorado Boulevard by ambulance to Denver Health Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, according to the Denver Office of the Medical Examiner.
Hamilton died of multiple gunshot wounds, and his manner of death is a homicide, the coroner’s office said.
Hamilton and another person were shot in the 5100 block of East Thrill Place, according to police.
The second victim was described as being in “stable” condition.
No suspect information has been released.
Man guilty in road-rage shooting.
COLORADO
Khalil Jamandre Sanders never denied that he shot a woman in the back during a road-rage clash in Colorado Springs.
But his claim that his victim should share in the blame for cutting him off was quickly rejected by an El Paso County jury, which convicted him of all counts Thursday.
After a three-day trial, the nine-man, three-woman panel deliberated for just three hours before finding Sanders guilty.
Sanders, 24, faces up to 32 years in prison on the first-degree assault charge in the Feb. 2 attack that left a bullet lodged in victim Jamie Vasquez’s spleen. He is due to be sentenced Jan. 30.
Attorneys for the 24year-old ex-Fort Carson soldier argued that Sanders acted in the heat of passion after being repeatedly cut off by Vasquez, angling for a verdict that could have lowered his sentence to six years.
Sex assaults up at Fort Carson.
COLORADO
Reported sexual assaults have skyrocketed at Fort Carson since 2013, an increase that commanders say shows that soldiers are more willing to report attacks.
The number of reported assaults more than doubled from 43 in 2013 to 114 in 2016, a Pentagon report released Friday morning says.
Smaller increases were reported at Peterson and Schriever Air Force bases, according to the first-ofits-kind report.
Peterson had 15 reported sexual assaults in 2013 and 21 last year. Schriever went from 14 in 2013 to 15 last year.