COLORADO 3RD STATE WITH HORSE VIRUS
Two horses in Weld County have tested positive for vesicular stomatitis, a virus that can make eating and drinking painful, and the equines have been quarantined.
Colorado is the third state in the country this year to confirm cases of vesicular stomatitis, according to a state Department of Agriculture news release. Cases have also been diagnosed in Kinney and Tom Green counties, Texas, and in Sandoval County, N.M.
On Wednesday the National Veterinary Services Laboratory reported positive test results on samples submitted from two Weld County horses at different locations.
The animals are being monitored daily and will remain under quarantine for at least two weeks from the onset of lesions. There are no USDA-approved vaccines for vesicular stomatitis.
Armed man shot by police identified.
An armed man who was shot and killed by Denver police last week near downtown Denver has been identified.
Christopher Barela, 22, was pronounced dead July 1 at the scene in the 1000 block of Lincoln Street, according to the Denver Office of the Medical Examiner. The shooting remains under investigation.
Barela allegedly had smashed an RTD bus windshield, after starting a disturbance on the bus, and had fired a shot into the air after he was off the bus, police said last week at a news conference.
Officers ordered Barela to drop the gun he has been brandishing and he did not comply, police said. Instead, Barela fired a round into the air and then pointed the gun at an officer when he was shot.
Man dies in rafting accident.
DINOSAUR» A California man was killed in a weekend rafting accident in northwestern Colorado.
Officials with Dinosaur National Monument say 47-year-old Anthony Vasi of Newport Beach, Calif., died Saturday at Triplet Falls while on a commercial rafting trip with family and friends on the Green River.
The National Park Service says the raft got stuck on rocks and several passengers were thrown into the fast-moving water.
Victim ID’d; suspect arrested.
A man who was shot dead in Denver’s Harvey Park neighborhood on Friday has been identified and a suspect has been arrested in the case.
Matthew Arellano, 18, died of multiple gunshot wounds and the manner of his death is a homicide, according to the Denver Office of the Medical Examiner.
On Sunday, police arrested Isaiah Ruiz, 18, as a suspect in the shooting. Ruiz is being held on suspicion of first-degree murder, according to police.
Officials name victim who was strangled.
A woman who was fatally strangled in Denver’s Globeville neighborhood last week has been identified.
Josefina Mendez-Pantoya, 54, was pronounced dead on Wednesday at about 1:50 a.m., in the 4700 block of Pearl Street, according to the Denver Office of the Medical Examiner.
A suspect has been arrested and the case has been sealed, said Jay Casillas, a police spokesman.