6 weekend shootings leave 1 dead, 8 wounded
Multiple Denver-area police agencies are investigating six separate weekend shootings that left one man dead and wounded eight others.
The first shooting occurred early Saturday morning in Denver. A man was shot and killed near 50th Avenue and Quentin Street in the city’s Montbello neighborhood.
The second shooting in Denver occurred a couple of hours later in the area of Seventh Avenue and Lipan Street. One person was wounded.
No arrests were made and suspect information was not available in either of the Denver shootings.
In Adams County, the sheriff’s office is investigating a double shooting outside the Ugly Dog Sports Café, located at 1345 Cortez St. at 10:05 p.m. Saturday.
Two people — a bar employee and a patron — were struck by gunfire and transported to the hospital. One of the victims was in critical condition. The second victim was listed in a “stable” condition and later released from the hospital.
No arrests have been made. Commerce City police are investigating a double shooting at a house party in the 6100 block of Pontiac Street. It happened at 1:51 a.m. Sunday. The two victims were transported to the hospital in unknown conditions. No suspects have been identified.
In Aurora, police responded to a shooting on Interstate 225 just after midnight Sunday. Police said a man and a woman were shot while driving northbound on the highway near East Sixth Avenue.
Both victims sustained nonlife-threatening injuries, according to police. Police were looking for a black SUV in connection with the shooting.
About five hours later, a woman was shot and seriously wounded following a suspected road rage shooting and crash involving a stolen vehicle near East Smoky Hill Road and South Chambers Road in Aurora.
No arrests were made and police said they recovered the SUV at the scene.