CORONER: SOL PAIS DIED SAMEDAY SHE ARRIVED

Sol Pais was already dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound before the FBI and local authorities started a massive manhunt for her and hundreds of schools shut down along the Front Range.

The Clear Creek County coroner’s office on Wednesday said her death, near the base of Mount Evans, is “estimated to have occurred in the afternoon or early evening” of April 15, the same day she arrived in Colorado.

The coroner’s timeline is consistent with findings of the Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office, part of a team of law enforcement officers who found her body in a snowy, flat spot in the woods, off the path.

Pais’ body was found April 17 in a wooded area off the Rest House Trail near the Echo Lake Campground.

Riot at Lookout Mountain Youth Services Center in Golden results in multiple injuries.

A riot at the Lookout Mountain Youth Services Center , between juvenile inmates and staffers, resulted in multiple injuries Wednesday night, according to police.

The incident happened just before 6 p.m. in a facility unit named Cedar Lodge, according to a police news release.

About a dozen youth inmates and a similar number of workers were involved, police said. Two youths were injured. About 11 staff members suffered minor injuries. Two staffers were taken to a hospital.

The center in Golden is a treatment program for about 140 juvenile offenders, remanded there by court order.

Buttigieg endorses Hancock for mayor.

Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg took a few moments away from his own campaign to endorse Mayor Michael Hancock in his bid for a third term.

“I’m proud to call you a friend and endorse you in your re-election for mayor,” Buttigieg said in a 14-second video posted to Twitter by Hancock on Tuesday night.

The mayor of South Bend, Ind., a rising star in the Democratic presidential primary, isn’t the only White House hopeful to back Hancock. Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper also has endorsed Denver’s mayor in his bid for re-election.

Colorado woman rescued after being stuck in narrow Utah slot canyon.

BOULDER,

Authorities have rescued a Colorado woman who became wedged in a narrow slot canyon while hiking in southern Utah.

Garfield County spokeswoman Denise Dastrup said Monday that the woman was part of a group from the Denver area that went hiking in the Sandthrax slot canyon Sunday near Boulder, Utah. Dastrup said the group wasn’t prepared for the difficult hike, which requires rappelling in some spots.

Rescue teams freed her early Monday.