Local Briefs JEFFCO DEPUTY KILLS SUSPECT IN SHOOTING
COUNTY» A sheriff’s JEFFERSON deputy fatally shot a driver after a confrontation Thursday afternoon in a parking lot.
The incident unfolded about 3:30 p.m. with reports of a driver speeding on C-470 and passing cars on the shoulder, said Mark Techmeyer, a sheriff’s spokesman. The driver of the car exited C-470 at South Kipling Parkway and headed north.
A deputy came upon the car, unoccupied, at an auto parts store, 8134 S. Kipling Parkway. A short time later, the suspected driver exited the store and got in the car. The deputy got out of his patrol car, and a confrontation between the suspect and deputy ensued, Techmeyer said. The deputy fired his weapon, killing the suspect.
The deputy was not injured.
Overnight closures of stretch of southbound I-25 in early October.
A stretch of southbound lanes on I-25 north of Denver will be shut down overnight for construction in early October.
The closure between 136th and 120th avenues will happen Oct. 4 and 5, according to the state Department of Transportation. The highway will be closed starting at 10 p.m. and will reopen at 5:30 a.m.
Construction crews will install new storm and sewer infrastructure under the highway. A detour will be in place, and delays of up to 25 minutes should be expected.
City has its second multimillion-dollar lottery winner in less than a week.
Another millionaire was made in Grand Junction during the Colorado Lottery’s Lotto drawing Wednesday night.
The player picked all six numbers of 6-9-16-18-26-31 and won the $3 million jackpot. This is the second multimillion-dollar jackpot winner in the city in less than a week.
Judy Finchum won the $133.2 million Powerball jackpot in Saturday’s drawing. The Grand Junction resident is the state’s biggest jackpot winner.
7-Eleven clerk pulls out box cutter; suspected robbers flee.
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SPRINGS» A clerk at a downtown 7-Eleven store pulled out a box cutter when threatened by one of four alleged shoplifters early Thursday, police said.
Three females and one male entered the store about 1 a.m. Thursday and tried to steal items, the clerk said. When the clerk confronted the group, she told police, one of the females said she had a knife. The clerk pulled out her own box cutter in self-defense, she told police. The suspected thieves fled the store.