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Mass shooting
July 11, 2021

Housekeeper’s tip heads off potential mass shooting in Denver during All-Star Game

Acting on a tip from a housekeeper, Colorado police have arrested four people and seized more than a dozen long guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition from an 8th floor hotel room overlooking downtown Denver, where Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game festivities are getting under way. Denver 7 reported that police executed a search …

Hit-and-Run
March 10, 2021

Driver goes on ‘rampage’ of hit-and-runs in downtown Denver, injuring 4, including two cops

A 23-year-old Colorado man has been charged with 15 counts related to a “rampage” of hit-and-run crashes in Denver in January that injured four people, including two police officers. Tyler Hazell also faces two counts of bias-motivated crime when investigators determined that he may have targeted two victims based on perceived sexual orientation, ABC7 reports. …

Murder
January 8, 2021

Suspect, man whose body was found in 2 suitcases knew each other, cops say

Denver police have arrested a 28-year-old man suspected of killing another man whose body was found inside two suitcases on a snowy sidewalk last month, ABC7 reports. Investigators believe Benjamin David Satterthwaite and the victim, whose identity has not been released because his identity has not been confirmed, knew one another, the station said. Public …

Murder
January 6, 2021

MOTIVE FOR MURDER: DOG POOP? Neighbor guns down woman, 21, with AR-15

A Denver man stole an AR-15 from a police officer friend and used it to kill a 21-year-old neighbor and seriously injure her boyfriend because he was angry about their dog defecating on the ground near his apartment, the Denver Channel reports. Michael Close, 36, has been charged with multiple felonies and misdemeanors in the …

Homicide
December 30, 2020

Man’s body found in two suitcases on snowy Denver sidewalk: Cops

Denver police are investigating the death of a man whose body was found inside two suitcases on sidewalk in the southwest Mar Lee neighborhood, the Denver Post reports. Public works employees found the suitcases while plowing sidewalks at about 7:15 a.m. Tuesday, police Lt Matt Clark said at a news conference on Wednesday. The medical …

Kidnapping
November 8, 2020

Babysitter kidnaps infant boy; investigators catch her nearly 600 miles away

A babysitter kidnapped a 4-month-old Utah boy and fled with him to Colorado, where she was taken into custody 580 miles away in Denver. Peyton Everett Caraballo-Winston’s mother called Cedar City police at about 10 p.m. Friday, telling them that she had allowed all three of her children to stay the night with their babysitter, …

Murder
September 24, 2020

Grandmother dies 11 days after she was shot protecting her grandchildren

A Denver man has been charged with murder in a fatal shooting that began over a dispute about children playing in a yard, Denver7 reports. Jason Arroyo, 33, has been charged with the murder of Patricia Cruz, 55, who died 11 days after the September 6 incident in the city’s north end. Cruz’s son, Chris …

Cold Cases
May 30, 2020

Cold Case: DNA solves 50-year-old Colorado rape and murder

DNA evidence has solved the case of a 23-year-old newlywed whose body was found bound, strangled, sexually assaulted, and shot just off a Colorado highway in 1970. Mother of two Betty Lee Jones was last seen on March 8, 1970, after a days-long argument with her husband of nine days, Robert Ray Jones. Robert Jones …