gun violence
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‘Our leaders need to do more:’ Colorado family honors school shooting victims at Capitol
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Around 200 people have been killed in school shootings since the Columbine High School massacre in 1999. On Monday afternoon, a Colorado family laid one rose for each victim on the steps of the state Capitol building. Stacy Ravenscroft placed the roses with her husband, sister and step-mom, along with the Centennial family’s 11 children. …
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Denver Public Schools can’t say how many justice-involved students attend public school
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Denver Public Schools does not have a mechanism to track students involved with the juvenile justice system, The Denver Gazette has learned. And that’s a problem, community members and parents said. The revelation takes on new meaning in the aftermath of an East High School shooting last week that left two administrators wounded and the…
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East High School student testifies on gun bills hours after school shooting
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Alexander Cisneros spent Wednesday morning in lockdown after one of his classmates at East High School allegedly shot two faculty members. Seven hours later, he spent the evening advocating for gun safety in front of the Colorado legislature. Just before 10 a.m., a 17-year-old student shot and wounded two deans at East High School in Denver during…
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Gun manufacturer Ruger sued by son of Boulder King Soopers mass shooting victim
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The son of one Boulder mass shooting victim filed a lawsuit against Sturm, Ruger & Co., the maker of the pistol used in the March 2021 assault in the city’s south-side King Soopers that killed 10 people. Nathaniel Getz, the son of 59-year-old Suzanne Fountain, alleges in the new case that Ruger used deceptive marketing…
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Bullet hits Colorado senator’s window in Aurora, shattering ‘faith in my security’
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The bullet traveled through her window, cut through the sheers, pierced into her china cabinet, and then lodged itself in the living room wall. The shot did not just shatter her window, state Sen. Rhonda Fields said. “My faith in my security, of being, feeling safe at home, has been shattered,” she said. The Aurora…
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East High School students urge Denver City Council to act on gun violence issue
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After a shooting injured one student outside of East High School last week, a teacher and two students addressed the Denver City Council Tuesday, sharing their fears of gun violence in and around schools and asking for school resource officers to be re-instated in Denver Public Schools. They spoke during the public hearing portion of…
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Gun violence is rising. Two leaders say Denver schools and police need a new relationship.
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Nearly a year ago, two former Denver Public Schools administrators pitched an idea for how police and students could form healthy relationships instead of punitive ones. The proposal hasn’t been put into place. Nor have any others that address how Denver schools and city police should work together after a 2020 decision to remove police…
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How sealed criminal records in Colorado may be released to the public
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New footage obtained by The Gazette shows events during a 2021 bomb threat that lead to the arrest of 22-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich, whose name and age match that of the suspect arrested in Saturday’s Club Q shooting. In this screen recording provided by the owner of the house where Aldrich’s mother lived at the…
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What is Colorado’s red flag law?
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In Colorado, courts can temporarily seize firearms from individuals deemed to be a risk to themselves or others under the state’s “red flag” law. The state legislature passed the law in 2019, with supporters calling it a key tool to prevent gun violence. Colorado has continued to fall victim to mass shootings in the years…
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Shooting by Thornton officer during standoff justified, 17th Judicial DA finds
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The 17th Judicial District Attorney declined to file any criminal charges against Thornton police officers for an incident in March in which they shot a man in the foot during a standoff. The man shot at officers and later killed himself, according to a decision letter from District Attorney Brian Mason. The investigation didn’t conclusively…
