Suspect is held in campus dorm shooting that killed 2

A Michigan man was arrested Monday on murder charges related to the fatal shooting of two people, one of them his roommate, in a dormitory at the University of Colorado campus in Colorado Springs, police said.

The man who was arrested, Nicholas Jordan, 25, of Detroit, was also a student at the university. He faces first-degree murder charges in the shooting of a fellow student, Samuel Knopp, 24, of Parker, Colorado; and a campus visitor, Celie Rain Montgomery, 26, of Pueblo, Colorado, the Colorado Springs Police Department said Monday in a series of statements on social media.

On Tuesday authorities confirmed that Jordan and

Knopp were roommates. They did not provide a motive or other details.

Caitlin Ford, a spokesperson for the department, said Tuesday that police were still investigating what happened.

Jordan’s bond was raised from $1 to $5 million, cash only, during an advisement hearing Tuesday afternoon. He was being held at El Paso County Jail in Colorado Springs.

Knopp was a senior studying music, and Jordan was also enrolled, said Jenna Press, a university spokesperson. The university’s music program in 2023 featured a video of Knopp playing his guitar during his junior recital.

Around 6 a.m. Friday, campus police received a call about gunfire coming from Crestone House, a dormitory on the campus of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, a city of about 480,000 people.

Campus police found two people dead in the room and called the Colorado Springs Police Department, which dispatched its homicide unit to investigate.

By Friday night, police had an arrest warrant, setting in motion a search for Jordan.

By Sunday, police were calling the shooting “an isolated incident between parties that were known to one another and not a random attack against the school or other students at the university.”

The search lasted through the weekend, until about 8 a.m. Monday, when a motor vehicle theft unit found Jordan in a car in the city, police said.