MAN ARRESTED IN SHOOTING OF POSTAL WORKER

BOULDER COUNTY» Longmont police say a man who is suspected of complicity in the shooting death of a Longmont postal employee has been arrested.

Andrew James Ritchie, 34, of Loveland was arrested Tuesday night, according to jail logs.

According to an arrest affidavit, Ritchie is suspected of complicity to commit murder in the first degree in connection to the death of Jason Schaefer. The 33-year-old postal carrier was fatally shot Oct. 13 while delivering mail in southwest Longmont. Schaefer’s ex-girlfriend, Devan Rebecca Schreiner, 26, was charged with first-degree murder Tuesday.

According to the affidavit, cellphone records show Ritchie followed Schaefer along his mail route in the hours preceding the shooting and that he was on the phone with Schreiner, with whom he had been in a romantic relationship, throughout much of the morning. Ritchie made three phone calls to Schreiner that afternoon, after the shooting.

Corrections officers shoot man wanted on parole violation in southeast Denver.

An investigation is underway in southeast Denver after state Department of Corrections officers shot and killed a man who they say was armed and who was wanted on a parole violation, police said Wednesday.

The man was taken to a hospital in “extremely critical condition,” Police Division Chief Joe Montoya said. Police later announced the man died.

The shooting happened about 11 a.m. in the 1000 block of South Parker Road, according to police.

Police were not on scene at the time of the shooting, Montoya said. Officers with the fugitive apprehension unit of the Department of Corrections encountered the suspect, who they said was armed, and officers fired. The suspect was not immediately identified.