View Larger Map The Aurora Police Department has identified Jose De Jesus Martinez, 32, as the victim in a May 28 arson at 2301 N. Emporia Street, an address captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). Coy Dunn and Douglas Taylor…
View Larger Map Back in the ’90s, the Denver area experienced what was known as the “Summer of Violence.” Today, we seem to be in the midst of an especially murderous spring. This afternoon, a man was shot and killed in a Dollar Value Plus store at 5765 E. 63rd…
View Larger Map There’s been an arrest in the murder last week of security guard Alfredo Gonzalez-Ramos at the El Chapparal night club, 2727 W. 6th Avenue, the venue captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). According to the Denver Police…
Three Colorado professors wanted to know more about gun violence in America — the social and cultural forces driving illegal gun use, how criminals view their gats, how they use them and why. So they did something few criminal justice researchers have ever bothered to do. They asked the thugs…
It takes a special kind of bastard to commit such a crude, poorly planned crime as grabbing a lady’s purse on the street and running like hell. At least with a mugging or a carjacking, there’s some type of criminal/victim exchange like, Now I am going to rob you; please…
Yesterday, the Denver Coroner’s Office identified the victim in a homicide at the 3100 block of North Franklin as Ivory Mefford, 28. Now, the DPD has released a photo of Mefford, who appears to have had a brush with the law in the past (the image here doesn’t look like…
View Larger Map What a quick turnaround. This weekend, the Denver Police Department released information about a hit-and-run that killed Lillian Verdonkschot, 49, near the Burger King at 6th Avenue and Broadway, the area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”)…
View Larger Map On Friday, the Denver Police Department confirmed that a security guard at the El Chapparal night club, 2727 W. 6th Avenue, a venue captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). Moments ago, a Denver Coroner’s Office representative identified…
View Larger Map Earlier today, the Denver Police Department put out a release about a call made in regard to a reported shooting at the intersection of Bruce Randolph Avenue and York Street, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger…
View Larger Map Early Sunday morning, a body was found with gunshot wounds in a field at the intersection of Arizona Avenue and Pecos Street, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). The Denver Coroner’s Office has just identified…
View Larger Map The Denver Coroner’s Office has identified Ivory Mefford, 28, as the victim of a homicide at the 3100 block of North Franklin, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing in the image, click “View Larger Map”). The brief release can be found…
View Larger Map The march of death continues. During the wee hours of May 29, Lillian Verdonkschot, 49, was struck by a vehicle reportedly driven by 23-year-old Adams County resident Dawn Marie Gonzales near the Burger King at 6th Avenue and Broadway captured in the graphic above (if you have…
And the killings continue. An arson investigation looking into a suspicious May 28 fire at 2301 N. Emporia Street no longer includes an attempted-homicide component. Instead, it features a pair of murder charges due to the death yesterday of a still-unidentified victim at an area hospital. The arrestees are Coy…
View Larger Map What a lethal four-day stretch in Denver. Friday brought word of a fatal shooting at the El Chapparal night club. With Saturday came news of a homicide on the 3100 block of North Franklin. On Sunday, we learned about a body found in a field at Arizona…
Last week, Broomfield Police officers killed Blair Kepler, 58, after he fatally shot his wife, Leigh Landskroner in their presence. The memorial service for Landskroner, whose family spoke about her love of animals and kin in a Daily Camera profile, took place on Friday. The Broomfield Enterprise also published a…
View Larger Map It’s turning out to be an unfortunately lethal weekend in the Mile High City. Early yesterday, a dead man with gunshot wounds was found at the 3100 block of North Franklin. Then, just after 3 a.m. this morning, the Denver Police Department responded to a report of…
View Larger Map The 3100 block of North Franklin, captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”), looks pleasant, bucolic even. However, something bad, very bad, has happened there. The Denver Police Department responded to a call at 5:30 a.m. today, and…
View Larger Map You can always count on the Denver Police Department’s communication department to communicate slowly, if at all. Finally, the DPD has put out a release on the shooting that took place just before 1 a.m. last night at the El Chapparal night club, 2727 W. 6th Avenue,…
View Larger Map Although the Denver Police Department has not yet issued an official release (at least not one we’ve received), numerous news agencies are reporting about a shooting late last night at the El Chapparal nightclub, 2727 W. 6th Avenue, a venue captured in the graphic above (if you…
Flashing: What a bad feeling — especially if you’re the one being unexpectedly confronted with a closeup view of genitals you really didn’t want to see in the first place. According to the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office, a young man has been waving his package around in serial fashion: once…
Man, pretty soon, the Central Platte Valley will have everything an upper-class urbanite could want: a mass-transit hub, a dog park, more fancy lofts and a brand spanking new firing range, where Denver cops will learn how to shoot suspected criminals. The planned location for the campus-like facility, which will…
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Ronald F. Thrasher, formerly of Colorado Springs, has been on the run for the past fourteen years. That’s not entirely true: He’s probably rested a time or two since 1995, when he fled custody before he could be sentenced for assorted drug- and gun-related…
