Vail resorTs prevails in appeal of TafT conlin case Car thief crashes into wind turbine blade in plant near Windsor. Denver D. A. says Aurora officers in shootout were justified in use of force.
The Colorado Court of appeals announced that a panel has dismissed a wrongful- death and negligence lawsuit brought against Vail Resorts regarding the death of 13- year- old Taft Conlin.
Conlin was skiing in a closed section of terrain on Vail Mountain on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012, when he was caught and killed in an avalanche.
His parents, Dr. Louise Ingalls and Dr. Steve Conlin, filed their suit, Ingalls et al. v. The Vail Corporation, in 2012, alleging that because their son entered the closed area from an open area and hiked into the closed terrain, the ski company was negligent in their failure to notify the public that by closing the upper gate, it also intended to close that part of the run between the two gates. In 2018, a jury ruled in favor of Vail Mountain.
WELD COUNTY » A man who stole an SUV led law enforcement officials on a series of pursuits out of Wyoming on Thursday morning and into Larimer County, where he stole a second vehicle and crashed into a wind- turbine blade at the Vestas Blades America facility near Windsor.
Frank Lopez, 29, was booked into the Larimer County jail on Thursday on suspicion of aggravated vehicle theft, vehicular eluding and criminal mischief, all felonies. Additional charges will be filed in Laramie County, Wyo., the release said. Lopez also is wanted on arrest warrants out of Boulder County for kidnapping and failure to comply with probation, according to the release.
Three Aurora police officers, who shot at a suspect in an exchange of gunfire in Denver, were justified in their use of force, according to investigators.
The Denver district attorney’s office on Thursday announced that officers Paul Jerothe, Brett Iske and Michael Neumeyer, who were part of a Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force SWAT unit at the time of the July 27 incident, were “legally justified” in firing their weapons at 22year- old Dontari Hudson.
Hudson, a suspect in a series of armed robberies, fired 11 shots at the officers, according to the decision letter. The officers fired dozens of shot. A mother and daughter, who were victims of the attempted carjacking by Hudson, narrowly escaped. Hudson has been charged with three counts of criminal attempt to commit first- degree murder, among other felony charges.