LAKEWOOD MAN LIKELY DEAD, HIS BODY DUMPED, POLICE SAY
An 81-year-old missing Lakewood man is likely dead and his body parts dumped in numerous spots in Denver, police said Thursday.
Gail Wilson was last seen about 9:30 a.m. Oct. 31 leaving his home in the 1300 block of South Reed Street, according to Lakewood police.
On Thursday police said unknown suspects drove Wilson’s truck, a 1997 red Ford F-150 with Colorado license plate BXX-317, to various spots in Denver about 3:30 p.m. Oct. 31.
A rolled-up carpet, tall white laundry basket and numerous black bags, “items likely containing the body of Wilson,” were dumped in numerous areas around Colfax Avenue and Broadway, East Sixth Avenue and York Street between 3 and 5 p.m. Oct. 31, Lakewood police said.
Police investigators spotted the truck at the Denver locations on surveillance video footage, said John Romero, a Lakewood police spokesman.
Wilson was reported missing by family members Nov. 1. His truck was recovered by police Nov. 5 in the area of I-25 and
West Colfax Avenue.
Upcoming Headline News program focuses on Berreth murder. Woodland Park mother Kelsey Berreth, who was brutally murdered by her fiancé, was last seen publicly on Thanksgiving Day 2018.
On Nov. 21, the docuseries “Lies, Crimes & Video,” on CNN Headline News, will air an episode — “Deal with the Devil” — about Berreth’s murder.
In November 2019, Patrick Frazee was sentenced to life in prison after a jury found him guilty of Berreth’s murder. Prosecutors in the case relied on a key witness, Idaho nurse Krystal Lee Kenney, who Berreth’s family felt was complicit in the murder.
“We did a deal with the devil,” said 4th Judicial District Attorney Dan May on the day of the conviction. Colorado leads nation in “dogpoo complaints,” study finds.
Colorado ranks first in the nation for the most “dog-poo complaints,” according to a recent study.
The study, by Protect My Paws, a company that helps consumers find pet insurance, analyzed tweets with a number of “poop-related” keywords, for example “dog poo” and “stepped in poo,” to “reveal the dog-poop capitals of America,” according to a news release.
Colorado leads the nation with 15.4 tweets annually per-100,000 residents with poop-related keyword complaints, according to the study. Oregon came in a whisker-close second at 15.3.
The state with the least amount of dog-poo complaints, according to the study, is Delaware at 1.5.
The same study, however, listed the 10 dog-poopiest cities in the country, and not a single city in Colorado made the list.
Protect My Paws named Pittsburgh as No. 1 on its list. Seattle came in second and Atlanta third. The authors claim: “Pittsburgh has a poop problem.”
Suspect arrested in shooting death of man in Northeast
Park Hill. A suspect has been arrested in the shooting death of a victim last month in Northeast Park Hill, police said Wednesday.
Warren Simpson Jr., 41, is being held on investigation of firstdegree murder, police said. Simpson is a suspect in the shooting death of 54-year-old Robert Turner.
Turner’s body was found outdoors Oct. 25 in the 3600 block of Monaco Parkway. Police announced the arrest Wednesday.
Man arrested in apartment fire
in which one person died. COLORADO SPRINGS» A 20-year-old man was arrested Monday on suspicion of murder and arson in connection with a fire at an apartment building where one person died, police said.
Police did not release details about what the suspect, Trey Dove, is accused of doing. However, investigators do not believe Dove and the victim “had any more than a passing acquaintance,” Lt. Jim Sokolik told KOAA-TV.
Sunday evening’s fire was contained to one apartment in the building and the victim was found outside the building, beneath a window, firefighters have said.
Building resident Pam Kellogg said Dove came knocking on her door shortly before the fire started. He was naked and babbling, she said.
Witnesses said they saw a man jump from a window next to the unit that was on fire.
One man shot, killed on Denver’s west side; police arrest
suspect. Denver police say a man was shot and killed early Wednesday in the Lincoln Park neighborhood and that a suspect was arrested.
Authorities first reported the shooting in the 1400 block of Osage Street just after 4 a.m. Police said a few hours later that the man was dead.
About 3:45 p.m., police announced that a suspect, 30-yearold Angel Manzanares, had been arrested and was being held on investigation of first-degree murder.
The shooting scene was near the Auraria campus, across from a Mcdonald’s on West Colfax. As of last month, there had been 48 crimes reported in the 1400 block of Osage Street in 2021, with an additional 10 at that Mcdonald’s location.
Domestic violence assault investigation leads to drug bust
near Greeley. Authorities in Weld County made a big drug bust Wednesday south of Greeley, seizing hundreds of fentanyl pills, 6 ounces of methamphetamine and 12 grams of heroin.
The drug suspect was wanted on an outstanding first-degreeassault warrant in a domestic-violence case. Investigators got a tip that he frequently went to storage business, according to a sheriff’s news release.
Investigators and a SWAT team staked out the business about 2 p.m. Wednesday, and the suspect showed up about two hours later, the sheriff’s office said. He was arrested without incident, and authorities seized the drugs he was carrying.
One man killed, another wounded in Denver shooting.
Two men were shot in Denver on Wednesday night, and one of the victims has died, police said.
The shooting happened in the 1100 block of Willow Street, police said Wednesday evening.
About 10 a.m. Thursday, they announced that one victim had died and that the other was in “critical” condition but is expected to survive. No one has been arrested, police said.