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Woman found dead in Glendale, death investigated as homicide
GLENDALE, Colo. — Police are investigating the death of a 42-year-old woman in Glendale this week as a homicide. Glendale Police officers responded around 9:15 a.m. on Tuesday to 635 S. Forest St. for a report about an "unresponsive" person. When they arrived, they found a woman, identified as Clarinda Blackburn, unconscious. She had obvious "blunt force" injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene.
500 letters urge DA to drop murder charge in I-25 shooting
Family and advocates of Stephan Long, who’s charged in a road rage homicide on Interstate 25, delivered more than 500 letters to Denver District Attorney Beth McCann’s office Thursday urging her not to prosecute him for murder. FOX31's Gabby Easterwood shares their concerns with the case.
Man convicted of killing 4 people at ex-girlfriend's home near Denver
A man was convicted Thursday of killing four people at his ex-girlfriend's home in suburban Denver in 2022 a week after she was granted a court order to keep him away from her.Joseph Mario Castorena, 22, was convicted of four counts of first-degree murder after deliberation for killing three of Jessica Serrano's relatives as well as a man who rented an RV on the family's property in Aurora on Oct. 30, 2022, prosecutors said. He was also convicted of one count of attempted murder.Castorena and Serrano, who was not injured, have two children together. Their children were out-of-state with...
'There's nothing you could do' | Witness describes tanker crash, fire that closed I-70
DENVER — Moments after a vehicle crashed into a tanker on the shoulder of Interstate 70 west of Denver on Thursday, killing one of the drivers and causing an hourslong shutdown of the interstate, Aeh Jay Hollenbeck came around a bend to a wall of smoke and fire. "I...
Colorado teen pleads guilty in death of driver who was hit in the head by a rock
GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) — A second teen pleaded guilty on Wednesday in the death of a 20-year-old driver who was hit in the head by a rock that crashed through her windshield in suburban Denver last year. Under a plea deal with prosecutors, Nicholas Karol-Chik, 19, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and commiting a crime of violence, saying that he passed a rock to another teen, Joseph Koenig, who then threw it at Alexis Bartell’s car, killing her, on April 19, 2023. Karol-Chik also pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree murder for throwing rocks at a total of nine people that night with Koenig and Zachary Kwak, who pleaded guilty last week and earlier in the year. Prosecutors have previously said they did not know which of the three 19-year-olds threw the rock that killed Bartell, noting that the only DNA found on it belonged to her. So they may need to rely on Karol-Chik’s testimony when Koenig, the only defendant still being prosecuted for first-degree murder in Bartell’s death, goes on trial in July. Koenig has pleaded not guilty. His lawyer, Martin Stuart, declined to comment.
Video shows dramatic moment Arvada officers prevented woman from jumping off bridge
A body camera video shows the dramatic moment four police officers from Arvada, Colorado grabbed a woman who appeared ready to jump off a bridge on Tuesday afternoon. The footage, which the Arvada police released on Wednesday, showed a woman sitting on the bridge on the west side of a parking garage. The bridge sits about 30 to 40 feet above a roadway. The police said they earlier received a...
Inmate dies while in Denver Sheriff Department custody
A man in custody at Denver's Downtown Detention Center died Thursday morning. His death is now being investigated by the Denver Police Department. Denver Sheriff Department deputies found the man unresponsive in a housing unit at the Downtown Detention Center — located near Civic Center Park — around 6 a.m. Thursday morning, according to a news release from the department.
Kevin Bui pleads guilty to murder in deadly arson that killed family of five
The last of three teenagers who set a house on fire that killed a Sengalese family of five pleaded guilty on Friday. Kevin Bui pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder in a plea agreement where the other 60 counts he was originally facing were dismissed.Bui is one of three teenagers who was charged with starting the fire in August 2020 in Denver's Green Valley Ranch neighborhood. He is scheduled to be sentenced in the Department of Corrections on July 2. The house fire on Aug. 5, 2020, killed Djibril Diol, his wife Adja, and their 2-year-old daughter, along with Hassan Diol and her...
Arapahoe deputy-involved shooting happened at 'host home'
A shooting near an Aurora school involved Arapahoe County deputies, but few specifics were available about what happened. A spokesperson told FOX31's Greg Nieto it happened at a "host home," where someone reported a person armed with a gun.
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