Sausalito police arrested a man on assault allegations after a dispute over a $1.6 million boat at a brokerage.
The incident happened at about 1 p.m. Monday at the Sausalito Yacht Harbor, where the suspect expressed interest in buying the boat, according to police Capt. Brian Mather. An argument broke out between the suspect and a broker “over the legitimacy of the sale,” Mather said.
The suspect then tried to board a boat without permission, and staff told him to leave. The suspect refused and tried to assault an employee, then left as a broker called police.
Officers found the suspect walking nearby. He allegedly refused to stop and was arrested after a brief struggle. Scott Michael Swan, 39, of San Francisco was booked into the Marin County Jail.
Swan was scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday on misdemeanor charges of assault and resisting police. He remained in custody in lieu of $2,000 bail.
Tera Johnson-Swartz, a 45-year-old Castle Rock woman who taught at STEM School Highlands Ranch, was originally charged with second-degree kidnapping and unlawful electronic sexual communication, both felonies, as well as contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a misdemeanor. Her employment at the school ended on Feb. 14, 2025.
That case was dismissed in May 2025, and a new case was opened shortly after, Douglas County court records show.
“The old case was dropped after new information came to light,” 23rd Judicial District Attorney’s Office spokesperson Tom Mustin said in an email to The Denver Post.
Johnson-Swartz faces the same charges in the new case and three new ones: two counts of sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust–pattern of abuse, and one count of sexual assault with a 10-year age difference, according to court records.
She was indicted on all six charges by a grand jury in May 2025, court documents show.
The newly added sexual assault charges are linked to several incidents between Dec. 1, 2024, and Feb. 20, 2025, where Johnson-Swartz initiated sex with a student younger than 18 years old, according to witness testimonies from the grand jury indictment. The name, age and gender of the victim were redacted from the indictment because they are a minor.
Johnson-Swartz would buy the student cigarettes and let the student “take a hit” off her marijuana pen, witnesses testified. Their relationship was discovered when the student’s phone was confiscated by their parents and the student’s mother found deleted text chains with the former teacher.
Roughly 2,400 messages, many containing sexually explicit content, were exchanged between the two in the three weeks prior, according to court documents. At one point, Johnson-Swartz called the text thread a string of “1,000,000,000 ways to get (her) fired/arrested/killed.”
An arrest warrant was issued for Johnson-Swartz on the same day she was indicted by the grand jury, and she was brought into custody.
She is next scheduled to appear in Douglas County District Court on Jan. 21 for an arraignment hearing, according to court records.
Volunteers from the community joined owners and employees of Beyond Borders Cafe in Flossmoor to sweep up broken glass and vacuum dust out of cushions Tuesday, after a driver fleeing Homewood police crashed into the business Monday morning.
Owners Christopher and Jennifer Zarozny said they plan to reopen as soon as possible. Their goal is to be closed for no more than two weeks.
“If it was up to us, we’d be up and running next week,” Jennifer Zarozny said.
The car crashed into the cafe the early Monday after speeding down Sterling Avenue, they said. Christopher Zarozny said the driver was speeding because he was fleeing from Homewood police, and that he was estimated to have been going 80 mph at the time of the crash.
“It wasn’t an elderly person that had a medical condition,” Christopher Zarozny said.
The village of Flossmoor’s statement said the driver was taken to the hospital in critical condition.
“The incident is currently under investigation by the Flossmoor Police Department, and the actions of the Homewood Police Department related to the incident are also being reviewed,” Homewood police Chief Tom Johnson said. “There is no additional information to share at this time.”
Beyond Borders Cafe opened in August of last year.
“I think we ran through every emotion,” Jennifer Zarozny said. “The crying, the anger, the going to comedy about it because what else can you do, you know?”
Despite the damage to their business, the Zaroznys said they’re relieved the accident happened when the cafe was closed and no one was present or walking nearby.
A car crashed into Beyond Borders Cafe in Flossmoor early Monday morning. (Christopher Zarozny)
“Generally, as you know, we have people sitting here,” Christopher Zarozny said, indicating the front window of the business. “There could’ve been four dead people.”
Though the car did heavy damage to the cafe’s front wall and covered everything inside in dust and glass, it hit the front of the building side-on and did not go into the cafe itself, meaning the only major repair work will be to the front wall.
“This can be replaced, right? Human life can’t,” Christopher Zarozny said.
Lisa Hawkins, Jennifer Zarozny’s sister, was one of the volunteers helping with cleanup Tuesday. She said she’d also been thinking about how much worse the accident could’ve been.
“I was just shocked,” Hawkins said. “To me it’s kind of selfish. Just pull over.”
A car crashed into Beyond Borders Cafe in Flossmoor early Monday morning. (Christopher Zarozny)
The accident also broke a fire hydrant and damaged the building’s gas meter. The situation was especially dangerous because the building has apartments on the upper floors, Hawkins said.
“He busted the gas meter,” Hawkins said. “With the car being on fire, he could’ve blown the whole building up.”
Hawkins said it was painful to see the cafe in disarray after all the work that went into getting the it up and running.
“We’re thankful that the community’s coming together and people are coming here and coming together to help clean up today,” Hawkins said. “It takes a village, for sure.”
Christopher Zarozny, left, points out the gas meter that was hit in the crash. (Evy Lewis/Daily Southtown)Volunteers clean up the Red Velvet Room in the back of of Beyond Borders Cafe, where the business recently hosted a wine tasting. (Evy Lewis/Daily Southtown)
Manager Farzana Ecob said she moved to the area from Los Angeles shortly before the cafe opened last July.
“The cafe means a lot to me. I’ve seen it from day one, or day zero,” Ecob said. “I like to think this is everybody’s baby, and to see the baby hurt is really devastating.”
Ecob said her hope for the cafe is that it provides a safe, comfortable space for everyone.
“It’s such a wonderful communal place, and to see it in this state is a little traumatizing,” Ecob said.
However, Ecob said she was certain the business would come out stronger from the accident.
“We have hope, and seeing everybody coming in today and helping out, we’ll persevere,” Ecob said. “Life throws a lot of curveballs at you, but community, at the end, is what thrives and keeps us going, and that’s what everybody is here to do.”
Two people were found dead inside a burning Westminster home early Tuesday morning, fire officials said.
Heavy flames were already coming from the Westminster home near Marshall Court and W. 72nd Drive when firefighters arrived at the deadly blaze shortly after midnight on Tuesday, according to the city’s fire department.
That intersection is in northeast Jefferson County, on the edge of Adams County.
Rallies began Saturday morning in Los Gatos and Mountain View, with more planned later into the day in Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, San Jose, Richmond and San Francisco. Many were organized by a coalition of groups including May Day Strong, Indivisible and others.
Robin Dosskey, of Mountain View, waves at motorist while protesting in Mountain View, Calif., on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026. About 25 people gathered at the corner of West El Camino Real and Grant Road to protest the recent immigration enforcements and President Donald Trump’s military actions in Venezuela. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)
In a statement, May Day Strong called for unity against U.S. occupation of Venezuela and the removal of “reckless untrained ICE agents from our communities.” They argued overseas wars and increased immigration enforcement enriched billionaires at a human cost, and that tax money should be used for “good jobs, better schools, access to health care and (getting) our basic needs met.”
At Los Gatos, David Bowie’s “Under Pressure” blared to over 100 people as passing cars honked in support of the demonstration.
George Hoffman, a 49-year-old Los Gatos resident, said he’s been protesting regularly at the town’s Tesla dealership since April 2025, in an effort to push back against Elon Musk’s support of Trump.
Hoffman said he started attending protests because he was tired of keeping quiet on the Trump administration’s actions and “feeling like everything was broken.”
“It was killing me,” he said. “I was in a hole of despair and loneliness.”
One week ago, a U.S. strike in Venezuela killed about 80 people and ended with the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, who are now in New York City awaiting trial on federal drug charges. Trump and others in his administration have said the U.S. would “run” the country, taking millions of barrels of oil with the blessing of the South American nation’s acting leadership.
Lynda Turkus, of Mountain View, shakes a cowbell while protesting in Mountain View, Calif., on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026. About 25 people gathered at the corner of West El Camino Real and Grant Road to protest the recent immigration enforcements and President Donald Trump’s military actions in Venezuela. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)
Susanne Rondeau, of Sunnyvale, shakes a cowbell while protesting in Mountain View, Calif., on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026. About 25 people gathered at the corner of West El Camino Real and Grant Road to protest the recent immigration enforcements and President Donald Trump’s military actions in Venezuela. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)
Susanne Rondeau, of Sunnyvale, shakes a cowbell and waves a US flag while protesting in Mountain View, Calif., on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026. About 25 people gathered at the corner of West El Camino Real and Grant Road to protest the recent immigration enforcements and President Donald Trump’s military actions in Venezuela. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)
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Lynda Turkus, of Mountain View, shakes a cowbell while protesting in Mountain View, Calif., on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026. About 25 people gathered at the corner of West El Camino Real and Grant Road to protest the recent immigration enforcements and President Donald Trump’s military actions in Venezuela. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)
Many within the U.S. and internationally criticized the attack as a flagrant violation of international law that ignores Venezuela’s sovereignty. However, Venezuelan expatriates in Florida and elsewhere were supportive of Maduro’s removal after years of reported human rights violations and economic troubles in the country.
In Mountain View, a couple dozen people went to a Chevron gas station to protest. Cindy Ferguson, a 73-year-old Mountain View resident, has been going to several demonstrations, including the No Kings protests in June. She specifically wanted everyone to rally around Chevron due to the president’s actions in Venezuela to gain control of their oil reserves. Ferguson was formerly in the Army between 1973 and 1976. She criticized the similarities she saw between the U.S.’s intervention in Iraq and Iran and the attacks in Venezuela, saying “none of it worked, then or now.”
“They stand to profit really big, so he’s just paying off his billionaire buddies, and all the money and spending is for that,” Ferguson said. “Why aren’t we feeding kids? Why aren’t we giving health care? We could do a lot with that money, too. Let’s care for everyone.”
On Wednesday, a Minnesota woman named Renee Good was fatally shot by a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis, a killing caught on video that quickly sparked outrage and, from the Trump administration, unsupported claims that Good was a “domestic terrorist.” A day later, two people were wounded in Portland, Oregon, when federal immigration officers shot them in their car outside of a hospital. Both of the shootings inspired vigils and demonstrations against crackdowns authorized by Trump.
Many people that were protesting in the South Bay were enraged over the Good’s death. John Elliott, a 77-year-old Los Gatos resident, said that he had seen the video footage of Good’s shooting and thought it was “striking” that there were people who could justify it. Similarly, 20-year-old Campbell resident Michael Zambon felt that Good’s death was an extrajudicial killing.
“This is really not just about the murder of Renee Nicole Good. It’s also about the rule of law,” Zambon said. “This is a regime of lawlessness. And I believe we need to push back as best we can in order to ensure that the rule of law can endure in the consciousness of the country.”
Lisa Guevara, a 58-year-old resident of Menlo Park, is affiliated with Showing Up for Racial Justice, an organization to help white people organize against racial discrimination. Guevara connected the ICE-involved shootings with the attack on Venezuela as examples of Trump’s government trying to convince Americans that they have a right to enter Venezuela or American cities to strong-arm them.
“I think all of it is connected; It’s all this fascist, patriarchal, white supremacy situation,” Guevara said. “It’s this idea of being able to to determine other people’s lives for them, whether it’s in foreign countries or whether it’s in our own neighborhoods.”
Hoffman said Good’s death was another example of the Trump administration lying to people about what has been happening in the nation.
“We need to stop seeing this as a single issue,” Hoffman said. “It’s all the same fight.”
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NEW YORK — Luigi Mangione’s federal death penalty trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson could begin before the end of the year, a judge said Friday while weighing a defense bid to bar the government from making it a capital case.
U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett said she expects Mangione’s trial to begin in December — or possibly January 2027, as federal prosecutors suggested — if the death penalty is still on the table. If not, she said, Mangione could stand trial in October.
Either way, Garnett said, she expects jury selection to begin around Sept. 8. No trial date has been scheduled in Mangione’s parallel state murder case. Prosecutors previously said they anticipated the state trial to be first.
Garnett said she would issue a written schedule after looking at her calendar and reviewing notes of conversations she’s had with the court’s jury coordinator.
The judge said she would rule at a later date on the defense’s requests to prevent prosecutors from seeking the death penalty, throw out some charges and exclude certain evidence. Another pretrial conference is scheduled for Jan. 30.
Mangione’s lawyers contend that authorities prejudiced his case by turning his December 2024 arrest into a “Marvel movie” spectacle and by publicly declaring their desire to see him executed even before he was formally indicted.
At the same time, they are asking Garnett to throw out two of the four charges against him, including the murder by firearm charge that has enabled the government to seek the death penalty. They argue that it is legally flawed.
Federal prosecutors say Mangione’s lawyers are wrong on both fronts, countering that the murder charge is legally sufficient and that “pretrial publicity, even when intense” is hardly a constitutional crisis. Any concerns about public perceptions can be alleviated by carefully questioning prospective jurors about their knowledge of the case, prosecutors wrote in a court filing.
Mangione has pleaded not guilty to federal and state murder charges, which carry the possibility of life in prison.
Friday’s hearing was Mangione’s first trip to Manhattan federal court since his April 25 arraignment.
A cause célèbre for people upset with the health insurance industry, Mangione again drew supporters to the courthouse. Some wore green clothing and carried signs such as “Free Luigi” and “No Death For Luigi Mangione.”
Mangione, wearing a beige jail uniform, was attentive but didn’t speak once during the nearly three-hour proceeding. After entering the courtroom, he greeted his lead attorneys, Karen Friedman Agnifilo and Marc Agnifilo, with handshakes. He nodded along while reading documents, sometimes sipping from a plastic water bottle.
In addition to the death penalty issue, Garnett is weighing a defense request — similar to one in his state case — to bar the government from using certain items found in a backpack during his arrest. The defense argues that the search was illegal because police had not yet obtained a warrant.
Those items include a gun that police said matched the one used to kill Thompson and a notebook in which Mangione purportedly described his intent to “wack” a health insurance executive.
Garnett said she is not inclined to hold a separate hearing on the evidence issue like one last month that took three weeks in Mangione’s state murder case. The judge in that case said he won’t rule until May.
Prosecutors contend police were justified in searching the backpack to make sure there were no dangerous items and that the gun, notebook and other evidence would have eventually been found anyway.
Thompson, 50, was killed Dec. 4, 2024, as he walked to a Manhattan hotel for UnitedHealth Group’s annual investor conference. Surveillance video showed a masked gunman shooting him from behind. Police say “delay,” “deny” and “depose” were written on the ammunition, mimicking a phrase used to describe how insurers avoid paying claims.
Mangione, 27, the Ivy League-educated scion of a wealthy Maryland family, was arrested five days later at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, about 230 miles west of Manhattan.
He’s already had success paring down his state case. In September, a judge threw out state terrorism charges against him.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced last year that she was directing federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty, declaring that capital punishment was warranted for a “premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America.”
Mangione’s lawyers argue that Bondi’s announcement, which she followed with Instagram posts and a TV appearance, showed the decision was “based on politics, not merit.” Her remarks tainted the grand jury process that resulted in his indictment a few weeks later, they said.
A person was driven to a hospital Tuesday morning after an injury at Eldora Mountain Ski Resort that involved arterial bleeding, which nearly prompted a helicopter transport.
The person was injured in a non-collision incident, according to Boulder County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Carrie Haverfield. Haverfield did not know the confirmed cause of the injury.
A medical helicopter was requested but was not sent, Haverfield said. On Tuesday, wind gusts at Eldora were expected to be as high as 34 mph, according to the ski resort website.
Information about the person who was injured was available.
A fatal head-on crash near Silverthorne in Colorado’s mountains shut down a state highway Tuesday morning, according to the Colorado State Patrol.
State patrol troopers responded to the two-truck crash near milepost 115 on northbound Colorado 9, west of Silverthorne, just before 8 a.m. Tuesday, according to a news release from the agency. A Dodge Dakota pickup truck and a Ford F350 collided head-on, killing one person, state patrol officials said.
The victim will be identified by the Summit County Coroner’s Office. Additional injuries were not reported by Colorado State Patrol, and information about the cause of the crash was not immediately available on Tuesday.
Anyone who witnessed the crash and has not yet spoken to investigators is asked to contact the Colorado State Patrol dispatch at 970-249-4392 and reference case VC260009.
A man stabbed in Denver’s Sunnyside neighborhood on Monday night died at the hospital, police officials said Tuesday.
Denver Police Department officers responded to a stabbing in the 4200 block of North Lipan Street at around 10 p.m., the agency said on social media.
One victim was taken to the hospital and died on Tuesday, and his death is being investigated as a homicide.
Police are still working to develop information about a suspect. Anyone with information about the case can contact Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867.
A former Arvada teacher arrested Monday for reportedly creating and selling child sexual assault material was found to have violated St. Vrain Valley School District policies in 2023 for interactions he had with students at Erie Middle School, and officials recommended the teacher not return to the district.
That finding was not shared with Jefferson County School District when it hired the teacher, according to an arrest affidavit.
SVVSD officials said Wednesday that they were evaluating whether they could fire the teacher, 39-year-old Patricio Alejandro Illanes, when he resigned in late 2023.
Illanes faces 40 counts of sexual exploitation of a child in addition to 10 counts of unlawful practice of occupation or profession, according to a Boulder County Sheriff’s Office release.
Illanes reportedly photographed or took videos of at least 10 students at four different schools or youth program locations, including Centaurus High School, New Meridian High School and Erie Middle School, over the course of nine years, according to an arrest affidavit.
In 2023, a school employee reported to an Erie police school resource officer that he had overheard a 14-year-old boy describe an interaction he had with Illanes to another student.
The boy said Illanes had asked him to stay after class to help him with a video project, and the boy agreed, according to the affidavit. Illanes then instructed the boy to remove his shirt and shoes and pretend to be a lifeguard. The student said Illanes told him that he would pretend to chloroform him and instructed the student to pretend to be knocked out.
When Erie police interviewed Illanes, he “provided a similar story” but said he never touched the students inappropriately and that their shirts remained on, according to the affidavit. Illanes gave police the videos he had recorded, which showed the interaction described by the student, but with the student wearing a lifeguard shirt over a long-sleeve shirt.
Two other minors later told police Illanes asked them to help him with a project, then videotaped or photographed them in costumes.
In an October 2025 interview with police, Illanes said he did not use the videos for sexual gratification and understood the incident was “not an appropriate thing,” according to the affidavit.
The Erie police criminal investigation into the incident was “unfounded,” according to the affidavit.
An SVVSD internal investigation found that Illanes had violated district policies and recommended that he “not return” to Erie Middle School or any school in the district.
Illanes resigned in December that year. He was hired to work at Arvada Senior High School in 2024.
When Illanes resigned, SVVSD was evaluating whether it had “sufficient grounds” under state teacher employment laws to fire him, according to Kerri McDermid, the district’s chief of staff and strategic priorities.
Jefferson County School District officials told police they never received the SVVSD internal investigation report, and had they known about it, they wouldn’t have hired Illanes, the affidavit stated.
SVVSD officials told police Jeffco officials had not asked for the report and that they had been served a court document restricting them from sharing it, but did not provide the court document to police, according to the affidavit.
McDermid said the SVVSD human resources department and Illanes’ former supervisor at Erie Middle School do not have a record of receiving a reference or information request from Jeffco officials until October 2025. At that time, the district provided the information they were allowed to disclose under law, she said.
A 38-year-old man was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of murder in a fatal Denver stabbing, police said.
Denver officers responded at about 9:51 p.m. Monday to a stabbing in the 4200 block of North Lipan Street in the city’s Sunnyside neighborhood. Paramedics took the man who was stabbed to the hospital, where he later died from his injuries.
Christopher Fielder was arrested Tuesday in Glendale and booked into the Denver Downtown Detention Center on Wednesday on investigation of second-degree murder, according to jail records.
The man who was stabbed to death will be identified by the Denver Office of the Medical Examiner.
Investigators believe Fielder and the victim had been in an on-again-off-again relationship, and police said there had been prior conflicts between the two. Denver police did not specify what conflicts had been documented.
The smell of smoke lingered in the streets of Denver’s Washington Virginia Vale neighborhood on Tuesday afternoon, where the charred wreckage of a partially built apartment complex continued to smolder.
Denver Fire Department crews have not left the the property at 5337 Leetsdale Drive since it caught fire Friday night, quickly growing into the worst blaze Denver firefighters have faced in decades.
The cause of the five-alarm fire is still under investigation, and on Tuesday the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ Denver field office requested a national response team assist with the case, Denver Fire Department Division Chief Robert Murphy said at a news conference.
Human remains search dogs on Monday searched the debris for several hours and did not find any bodies, Murphy said.
The 283-unit Harker Heights apartment complex, valued at $23.2 million and owned by Texas-based real estate investment company Embrey, was set to open in May, according to a design firm involved in the project.
A fire investigation continued along Leetsdale Drive between South Forest Street and South Hudson Street in Denver on Jan. 6, 2026. Denver Fire Department officials said during a press conference that the federal government will assist in the investigation of the large apartment construction fire. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)
“This fire threatened the safety of our community and injured a firefighter,” ATF Special Agent in Charge Chris Ashbridge said in a statement. “The (national response team) is bringing federal resources and expertise to this complex investigation. It is a top priority for us because we understand the immense challenges this fire has created for residents and businesses.”
The response team — which investigates major fires, explosions and bombings across the country — consists of federal agents, fire investigators, explosives specialists, fire protection engineers, electrical engineers, forensic chemists, intelligence research specialists, digital forensic specialists, a medic and an explosive detection dog, according to ATF.
It’s not clear how long the investigation and clean-up will take, Murphy said, but the “enormity” of the building and the massive amounts of debris will likely make the process difficult and lengthy.
Several businesses in the area were still closed Tuesday, and homes along East Dakota Avenue, which borders the burned area to the north, were visibly damaged.
The fire melted and burned off siding, shattered stone privacy walls and broke windows as flames came within feet of neighboring homes.
Several lanes of Leetsdale Drive remained closed Tuesday, including the right northbound lane and two right southbound lanes between South Holly and South Forest streets, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation.
Fully reopening Leetsdale Drive is contingent on demolishing parts of the charred apartment complex that are still standing, Murphy said. That will likely happen in the next few days, or within a week at most.
Fire investigators have not ruled out any potential causes and are investigating all tips, including reports of a homeless person being in the building and fireworks seen in the area when the fire began, he said.
“We are looking at everything right now,” Murphy said.
Firefighters and investigators still haven’t been able to enter the burned area because of how unstable the debris are and because the fire is still burning, Murphy said. While waiting for the fire to be fully extinguished, investigators have relied on witness accounts and surveillance video from neighboring businesses.
“Some of this fire we just can’t get to,” Murphy said. “It’s covered up, it’s hidden by collapse. I can’t send firefighters in there because of the danger of more collapse.”
A Denver firefighter heads down a ladder during a fire investigation along Leetsdale Drive between South Forest Street and South Hudson Street in Denver on Jan. 6, 2026. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)
Fire crews put an estimated 18 million gallons of water on the flames between Friday night and Monday, Murphy said, and firefighters continued to monitor the scene from a bucket raised high above the wreckage on Tuesday afternoon.
In a statement, Embrey spokesperson Jeff Cowart thanked emergency responders who worked to contain the fire and are working to secure the site.
“Our priority remains working collaboratively with Denver Fire, investigators and the community as the investigation continues to determine the cause and next steps,” Cowart said.
An Aurora pedestrian died Saturday night after being hit by a car while crossing the street, police said.
The pedestrian, a 43-year-old man who has not been publicly identified, was walking west across Peoria Street at East Colfax Avenue outside of the crosswalk when he was hit, according to a news release from the Aurora Police Department. The crash happened just before 11 p.m. Saturday.
He was also crossing against the traffic signal, police said. The white Ford SUV that hit the man while driving south on Peoria Street had a green light.
Paramedics took the man to the hospital, where he later died, police said. He will be identified by the Adams County Coroner’s Office.
Speed and alcohol are not believed to be factors in the crash, according to the Aurora Police Department.
As of Sunday evening, no charges were expected to be filed in the crash “unless additional details are obtained through the investigation and/or reconstruction of the scene,” police said.
A five-alarm fire that tore through a partially built Denver apartment complex Friday was still burning Monday as investigators worked to uncover the cause of the city’s worst blaze in decades.
The fire still burned underneath massive piles of debris at the destroyed apartment complex at 5337 Leetsdale Drive in Denver’s Washington Virginia Vale neighborhood, Denver Fire Department Division Chief Robert Murphy said Monday.
The development was planned as a 283-unit luxury apartment complex called Harker Heights before the fire sparked Friday night.
Fire investigators are considering what started the blaze and have not yet landed on one clear cause, Murphy said. Investigators are looking into the possibility that a homeless person was in the building when the fire began, but have not yet confirmed anyone was present, he said.
Rumors that the fire was sparked by vagrants have not been proven, Murphy said.
“It wouldn’t surprise me,” he said. “We’ve also heard the firework theory. And then as ever, there are things construction people do that have caused fires before. We are really looking at all angles.”
Fire officials still aren’t sure whether anyone was killed in the blaze, Murphy said. Crews haven’t been able to search through the debris for any bodies.
“I really hope there is nobody in there,” he said. “We are not getting any reports of anybody missing.”
Investigators are relying on witness accounts and ample surveillance video from neighboring businesses as part of the investigation, he said. The “enormity” of the building and the massive amounts of debris complicate the investigative work, Murphy said.
“It is going to be difficult and not timely,” he said.
The property’s ownership will bring in the heavy equipment to dig through the debris, he said, but firefighters will be present during that process to quickly knock down any fire that flares up as the debris is removed.
“There is going to be active fire there, not crazy, but smoldering and smoking until we can get an excavator in there and open it up,” Murphy said. “Some of that fire, we can’t reach it; it is hidden.”
Just one or two fire companies remained at the scene Monday — down from a peak of about 175 firefighters and support personnel who responded to the blaze Friday.
Fire officials hoped to further reduce on-scene crews by Monday night, keeping just a few uniformed personnel on site to keep control of the area during the ongoing investigation into the fire’s cause.
Calls started coming in about a structure fire along Leetsdale Drive, between South Forest and South Hudson Streets, at 6:45 p.m. Friday, Denver Fire Department Chief Desmond Fulton said.
The cause of the fire remained under investigation on Sunday.
Most of the building at 5337 Leetsdale Drive, which property records show was set to be a 283-unit luxury apartment complex called Harker Heights, had collapsed Saturday afternoon.
The fire is expected to continue burning inside the building through the weekend, blocking firefighters from entering to investigate the cause or search for victims, Division Chief Robert Murphy said during a Saturday news conference.
“I don’t know if any of us have seen a fire on this scale in our careers,” Murphy said. “I’m in the 30th year of my career, and this is the first five-alarm, almost six-alarm fire that we’ve ever had. We have had other large fires, like the Glendale fire and Emerson Street fire, but they never reached the capacity in terms of firefighters that this one did.”
A teenage boy died and three men were injured in a late-night Saturday shooting in southeast Denver, on the edge of the city’s Kennedy neighborhood, police said.
A group of people had gathered in the area to celebrate the U.S. capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro when the shooting happened, a spokesperson for the Denver Police Department said.
It’s unclear if the shooter was attending the event and, as of Sunday evening, no suspects had been publicly identified or arrested.
When Denver officers first responded to the shooting, they found one victim, who paramedics took to the hospital with unknown injuries.
Denver officers later learned about three additional victims, police said. Two were taken to hospitals in private vehicles, and a third — an unidentified 16-year-old boy — was dropped off near Iliff Avenue and South Havana Street, where he died.
The teenager will be identified by the Denver Office of the Medical Examiner.
The other three victims were a 26-year-old man, a 29-year-old man and a 33-year-old man, the spokesperson said. One of the men was in critical condition Sunday evening.
Another man was in serious condition and the third was treated for a graze wound and released, police told Denver7.
Two people were injured early Saturday morning when flames engulfed a motorhome in Adams County, according to the fire department.
Firefighters responded to reports of a grass fire in the 2900 block of E. 78th Avenue at 6:20 a.m. Saturday, according to Adams County Fire Rescue. When crews arrived, they found a motorhome on fire.
A video posted by the fire department shows a destroyed vehicle, with flames continuing to burn items inside. Firefighters pried part of the home open with an axe to douse the inside with water, the video shows.
Adams County firefighters responded to a second mobile home fire just after 8:30 p.m. Saturday in the 6800 block of Ruth Way, according to the department.
No injuries were reported, but crews rescued five puppies from the burning structure, fire officials said.
One person was injured after a truck crashed into the Regional Transportation District’s holiday train, the S Line, on New Year’s Eve, according to the agency.
Denver Police Department officers responded to the crash at 6:48 p.m. near 27th and Welton streets, agency officials said. No serious injuries were reported.
RTD footage appears to show the truck hitting the train, spokesperson Tara Broghammer said. The truck driver is being treated by paramedics, and no one on the train was injured.
Denver police confirmed there were no serious injuries reported after the crash.
S Line service at the 20th Street and Welton station, 25th Street and Welton station, 27th Street and Welton station and 30th Street and Downing station was briefly suspended and resumed at 7:30 p.m.
There was a ground delay at Los Angeles International Airtport on Saturday night temporarily affecting incoming flights, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
Flights coming to LAX were delayed an average of 98 minutes, the FAA website showed around 10:50 p.m. The delay order included all contiguous U.S. flights. An FAA advisory listed staffing as the impacting condition for the delay.
Spokespersons for the FAA and LAX couldn’t be reached for comment late Saturday night.
It appeared the delay, which ABC7 reported started around 7 p.m., had been lifted by around 11:30 p.m.
By then, LAX no longer appeared on the FAA’s list of airports affected by delays.
