TEEN FATALLY SHOT DURING CELEBRATION
A 17-year-old was shot and killed Friday night at a Juneteenth celebration at an Aurora park.
Police responded around 8:37 p.m. to reports of a shooting at Rocky Ridge Park on the 16200 block of East Mississippi Avenue, Aurora police said in a news release.
When officers arrived to the gathering — which contained more than 1,000 people — they found a teenage male with a gunshot wound. He was taken to the hospital where he died later that night.
Police believe the shooting to be an isolated incident between the victim and the suspect, with no immediate danger to the community, the news release said. Authorities do not have anyone in custody.
“This tragedy cuts to the core of all our hearts,” interim police Chief Vanessa Wilson tweeted Saturday. “Praying for his family and friends. I ask the community to pray for peace for our city.”
Police are investigating the incident as a homicide. Anyone with information can call Aurora police at 303-739-6068 or Denver Metro Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867.
Two die in separate shootings. Two people were shot and killed in Denver early Saturday in separate shootings, police tweeted.
Around 2 a.m., police tweeted about a man in unknown condition after being shot on the 300 block of 22nd Street in Five Points.
He later died of his injuries, police said.
At 2:15 a.m., police announced a shooting had occurred near the southbound off-ramp of Interstate 25 at 20th Street. A man was shot and taken to the hospital with serious injuries, where he later died.
No arrests have been made in the 22nd Street shooting, and police tweeted that both investigations are ongoing.
Arson suspect headed back to Minneapolis. A Minnesota man arrested in Colorado on suspicion of setting some of the fires that destroyed a Minneapolis police station on a night when protests over the death of George Floyd turned violent is returning to his home state to face prosecution.
Dylan Shakespeare Robinson, 22, waived his right to have procedural hearings in Denver federal court on Friday, and will be able to instead fight his detention in Minnesota federal court, where he is charged with aiding and abetting of arson.
He has been represented in Colorado by the federal public defender’s office, which does not comment on its cases. Robinson was arrested Sunday in Breckenridge.