Colorado Bureau of Investigation officials this week said they are still actively investigating the murder of 17-year-old Maggie Long, contrary to “unauthorized flyers being circulated… containing false information” about the case.
Maggie was found dead in the charred remains of her family’s home in Bailey in December 2017, and law enforcement later confirmed she had been burned alive and her death was a homicide.
While law enforcement has released composite sketches of several suspects, no one has been arrested in the case.
Courtesy Park County Sheriff via Denver7
Authorities said at a Monday news conference that they believe Bailey teenager Maggie Long was burned alive inside her family’s home in December 2017 and that there are three suspects in her murder who remain outstanding.
State officials released a statement on Friday addressing misinformation being circulated about the case, centered on a website for the investigation task force being deactivated.
“The CBI wishes to state unequivocally that the Maggie Long Task Force remains active and is aggressively pursuing justice,” agency officials said.
The case is a top priority for investigators with the CBI, Park County Sheriff’s Office, FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, state officials said.
The task force’s original website was deactivated in 2021 as part of an “administrative change” and was not a sign that the case was cold or not being worked.
There is no official Facebook page for the task force, and people can submit anonymous tips by calling 303-239-4243 or emailing maggie.long.tips@state.co.us. Tipsters may receive a $75,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the case.
“The CBI remains committed to Maggie’s family and the Bailey community,” the agency said. “We will not rest until those responsible for this horrific crime are held accountable.”
There are just 16 Flock Safety cameras in Thornton.
But those electronic eyes, mounted to poles at intersections throughout this city of nearly 150,000, brought out dozens of people to the Thornton Community Center for a discussion on how the controversial license plate-reading cameras are being used — and whether they should be used at all.
Law enforcement agencies cite the automatic license-plate readers, or ALPRs, as a powerful tool that bolsters their ability to locate and stop suspects who may be on their way to committing their next assault or robbery.
But Meg Moore, a six-year resident of the city who is helping spearhead opposition to Flock cameras, said she worries about how the rapidly spreading surveillance system is impacting residents’ privacy and Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures. Thornton’s Flock camera data can be seen by more than 1,600 other law enforcement agencies across the country.
“We want to make sure this is truly safe and effective,” she said in an interview.
The debate over Atlanta-based Flock Safety’s cameras, which not only can record license plate numbers but can search for the specific characteristics of a vehicle linked to an alleged crime, has been picking up steam in recent years. The discussions have largely played out in metro Denver and Front Range cities in recent months, but this year they reached the state Capitol, where lawmakers are pitching a couple of bills to tighten up rules around surveillance.
In Denver, Mayor Mike Johnston has been butting heads with the City Council over the issue. Johnston is so convinced of Flock’s value in combating crime that in October, he extended the contract with the company against the wishes of much of the council. Denver has 111 Flock cameras.
In Longmont, elected leaders took a different approach. Its City Council voted in December to pause all sharing of Flock Safety data with other municipalities, declined an expansion of its contract with the company and began searching for an alternative.
Louisville beat its Boulder County neighbor to the punch by several months, disabling its Flock cameras at the end of June and removing them by the start of October. City spokesman Derek Cosson said privacy concerns from residents largely drove the city’s decision.
Steve Mathias, a Thornton resident for nearly a decade, would like to see Flock’s cameras gone from his city. Short of that, he said, reliable controls on how the streetside data is collected, stored and shared are paramount.
“In our rush to make our community safe, we’re not getting the full picture of the risks we’re facing,” he said. “We’re making ourselves safe in some ways by making ourselves less safe in others.”
The hot-button debate in Thornton played out at last month’s community meeting and continued at a City Council meeting last week, where the city’s Police Department gave a presentation on the Flock system.
Cmdr. Chad Parker laid out several examples of Flock’s cameras being instrumental in apprehending bad actors — in cases ranging from homicide to sex assault to child exploitation to a $5,700 theft at a Nike store.
As recently as Monday, Thornton police announced on X that investigators had tracked down a man suspected of hitting and killing a 14-year-old boy who was riding a small motorized bike over the weekend. The agency said a Flock camera in Thornton gave officers a “strong lead” in identifying the hit-and-run suspect within 24 hours.
At the Feb. 3 council study session, police Chief Jim Baird described Flock’s camera system as “one of the best tools I’ve seen in 32 years of law enforcement.”
But that doesn’t sway those in Thornton who are wary of the camera network.
“I’m not a fan of building toward a surveillance state,” Mathias said.
The hazards of a system like Flock, he said, lie not just in the pervasive data-collection methods the company uses but also in who eventually might get to see and use that data — be it a rogue law enforcement officer or a hacker who manages to break into Flock’s database.
“A person who wants us to do us harm with this system will have as much capability as the police have to do good,” he said.
A Flock Safety license plate recognition camera is seen on a street light post on Ken Pratt Boulevard near the intersection with U.S. 287 in Longmont on Dec. 10, 2025. (Matthew Jonas/Daily Camera)
Crime-fighting tool or prone to misuse?
In November, a Columbine Valley police officer was disciplined after he accused a Denver woman of theft based in large part on evidence from Flock cameras, according to reporting from Fox31. The officer mistakenly claimed the woman had stolen a $25 package in a nearby town and said he’d used Flock cameras to track her car.
“It’s putting too much trust in the hands of people who don’t know what they’re doing,” DeFlock’s Will Freeman said of so many police agencies’ adoption of the technology.
Last summer, 9News reported that the Loveland Police Department had shared access to its Flock camera system with U.S. Border Patrol. That came two months after the station reported that the department gave the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives access to its account, which ATF agents then used to conduct searches for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Parker, the Thornton police commander, said any searches connected to immigration cases or to women from out of state who are seeking an abortion in Colorado — another scenario that’s been raised — “won’t ever touch our system.” State laws restrict cooperation with federal immigration authorities and with other states’ abortion-related investigations.
“Any situation I feel uncomfortable about or that might be in conflict with our policies or with Colorado law, I will revoke their access — no problem,” he said.
Thornton deputy city attorney Adam Stephens said motorists’ Fourth Amendment rights are not being violated by the city’s Flock camera network. During last week’s meeting, he cited several recent court cases that, in essence, determined that there is no right to privacy while driving down a public roadway.
In an interview, Stephens said Thornton was “in compliance with the law.”
Flock spokesman Paris Lewbel wrote in an email that the company was “proud to partner with the Thornton Police Department to provide technology used to investigate and solve crimes and to help locate missing persons.”
Lewbel provided links to two news stories about minor children who were abducted and then found with the help of Flock’s cameras in Thornton and elsewhere.
At the council’s study session last week, Parker provided more examples of Flock’s role in fighting crime and finding missing people in Thornton. They included police nabbing a suspect who had hit and killed a pedestrian, locating a burglar who was suspected of robbing several dispensaries, and tracking down an 89-year-old man with dementia who had gotten into his car and gotten lost.
“It allows us to find vehicles in a manner we weren’t able to previously,” Parker said of the camera network.
Thornton installed its first 10 Flock cameras in 2022 and then added five more — plus a mobile unit — two years later. The initial deployment was in response to a spike in auto thefts in the city, which peaked at 1,205 in 2022 (amid an overall surge in Colorado). Thornton recorded 536 auto thefts last year.
The city says Flock cameras have been involved in 200 cases that resulted in an arrest or a warrant application in Thornton over the last three years.
Thornton police have access to nearly 2,200 other agencies’ Flock systems across the United States, while nearly 1,650 law enforcement agencies can access Thornton’s Flock data, according to data provided by the city.
For Anaya Robinson, the public policy director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado, the networked nature of Flock cameras across wide geographies is a big part of the problem. By linking one police agency’s Flock technology with that of thousands of other police departments, it “creates a surveillance environment that could violate the Fourth Amendment.”
The sweeping nature of Flock’s surveillance is also worrisome, Robinson said.
“You’re not just collecting the data of vehicles that ping (a police department’s) hot list (of suspicious vehicles), you’re collecting the data of every vehicle that is caught on a Flock camera,” he said.
And because the technology is relatively inexpensive — Thornton pays $48,500 to Flock annually for its system — it’s an affordable crime-fighting tool for most communities. But that doesn’t mean it should be deployed, DeFlock’s Freeman said.
Fight remains a largely local one
State lawmakers are crafting bills this session to limit the reach of surveillance technologies like Flock’s.
Senate Bill 70 would put limits on access to databases and the sharing of information. It would prohibit a government from accessing a database that reveals an individual’s or a vehicle’s historical location information, and it would prohibit sharing that information with third parties or with government agencies outside the controlling entity’s jurisdiction. Certain exceptions would apply.
Senate Bill 71 would direct a “law enforcement agency to use surveillance technology only for lawful purposes directly related to public safety or for an active investigation.” It also would forbid the use of facial-recognition technology without a warrant and would place limits on the amount of time data can be retained.
Both bills await their first committee hearings.
Thornton says it doesn’t use facial recognition technology. Its Flock data is retained for 30 days.
Regardless of what passes at the state Capitol, the real fight over license plate readers of any type will likely continue to happen at the local level. Thornton’s council plans further discussions on Flock next month.
For Moore, the resident who is leading the charge against the cameras, potential surveillance of the immigrant community is what troubles her the most.
“We want to make sure we’re operating this so that it’s safe for all of our residents,” she said. “Getting rid of the cameras altogether is a tough sell. But there needs to be a conversation about guardrails.”
Mayor Pro Tem Roberta Ayala, a Thornton native, said she has heard a wide array of opinions from her constituents about the advantages and potential downsides of the technology.
“Could it be misused? Yes. Do we want to stop that? Yes,” she said.
But as a victim of crime herself, Ayala also knows the immense damage and disruption that crime causes victims and their families, be it a stolen vehicle or something much worse. And as a teacher, Ayala is concerned about achieving justice for the families of children who are harmed or abused.
“If it can save even five kids,” she said, “I want the cameras.”
A football player at a southern Colorado college is accused of hiring three men to kill his residence hall neighbor after the pair argued about hair left in their shared shower, according to the Fort Lewis College Police Department.
Jackson Thomas Keller, 19, was arrested on Jan. 29 in Durango on suspicion of soliciting a homicide and illegally carrying a weapon on college grounds, according to an arrest affidavit.
The student targeted by Keller told police that they played football together and had started “having issues” in recent weeks, police wrote in the affidavit. Their rooms were next to each other in Cooper Hall and shared an adjoining bathroom.
Keller started a fight with the student over leaving hair in the shower about a week before trying to arrange his death, police said in the arrest report. The targeted student started locking his door after that fight, so Keller could no longer access his dorm room from the shared bathroom.
On Jan. 28, the student was in his dorm room when he heard the knob on his bathroom door rattling like someone was trying to enter, according to the affidavit. The student told police this had been an ongoing issue and that he knew it was Keller trying to get in, so he went to confront Keller in his dorm room.
The student told police he argued with Keller and kicked over Keller’s TV, knocking it into a PlayStation. Keller then challenged him to a fight and the student retreated into the hall.
Keller never followed, but a friend of the targeted student told him that Keller was waiting in his dorm room and holding a pair of scissors behind his back, allegedly planning to stab the student if he came back in, according to the affidavit.
Keller later offered to give that friend $500 to “put a hat” on the victim. When the friend turned him down, he called a group of three men in Colorado Springs and offered it to them instead. They accepted.
The friend saw the men holding guns when Keller video-called them and watched Keller transfer the money on CashApp. As the group started to plan their route and timing to the college, the friend pretended to get a phone call and left the room to alert the targeted student of the planned attack.
The targeted student reported Keller to the college’s housing officials, who then alerted campus police.
Keller was released from the La Plata County Jail on a $50,000 cash or surety bail and is set to appear in court for a filing of charges hearing Feb. 23, according to court records.
Arapahoe County investigators are searching for suspects after a woman was found shot to death in a remote area east of the Denver area last week, according to the sheriff’s office.
Deputies conducting a welfare check at 8 a.m. on Jan. 29 in unincorporated Arapahoe County found the woman’s body, sheriff’s officials said in a post on X. Her death is being investigated as a homicide.
Arapahoe County Coroner Kelly Lear identified the woman killed as 25-year-old Zacoria Maelan Moore. Moore died from a gunshot wound, according to the coroner’s office.
The sheriff’s office is not releasing the exact location where the woman was found because investigators are still looking for a suspect, spokesperson Ginger Delgado said.
Anyone with information about the case can contact the investigation tip line at 720-874-8477.
A 15-year-old will serve seven years in Colorado’s Division of Youth Services after pleading guilty to setting a Lakewood apartment complex on fire, killing Kathleen Payton and her 10-year-old daughter, Jazmine Payton-Aguayo.
The teen and an accomplice, who were 12 and 14 at the time, started the fire in the early hours of Oct. 31, 2022, after they were asked to leave a friend’s apartment at the Tiffany Square Apartments complex, according to the First Judicial District Attorney’s Office.
Kathleen Payton and her 10-year-old daughter, Jazmine Payton-Aguayo in an undated photo. Payton and Jazmine were killed on Oct. 31, 2022, after two juveniles set their Lakewood apartment complex on fire. (Courtesy of the First Judicial District Attorney’s Office)
Flames spread rapidly from bushes outside the complex at 935 Sheridan Blvd. to the wooden walkway above. Payton, 31, and Jazmine were trapped inside their apartment and died from carbon monoxide poisoning and smoke inhalation, the DA’s office said.
Ten people were also injured in the fire, and everyone who lived at the 32-unit complex was displaced.
Both teens, whose names were not made public under Colorado law, pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder, attempted murder and arson, all felonies. The first teen was sentenced to seven years in the Division of Youth Services after pleading guilty in October 2023.
During the second teen’s sentencing hearing on Thursday, court officials noted that Payton died trying to protect her daughter during the fire.
According to a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Payton’s family, she followed instructions from an emergency dispatcher and sheltered in the bathroom, covered her daughter with wet towels and held wet towels under the bathroom door to prevent smoke from getting inside.
That lawsuit was dismissed in May at the family’s request, court records show.
“Today’s sentence brings a measure of justice for the many members of our community impacted by this senseless fire,” Deputy District Attorney Riley Gonya said in a statement. “While nothing can restore the lives lost, the homes destroyed, or the sense of safety that was shattered, we hope this outcome provides a sense of closure and allows everyone involved to finally begin the long process of healing.”
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.
Two people were killed and three wounded during a shooting Christmas Eve at an apartment complex in Aurora.
Police responded about 9:30 p.m. to reports of a shooting in the 1800 block of Billings Street, Aurora police said in a news release.
A 41-year-old woman and a 17-year-old man were killed, police said. The three surviving victims were an 18-year-old man, a 42-year-old woman and a 41-year-old woman.
Preliminary investigation indicates the shooting occurred between people who knew each other, police said. Authorities said there is no suspect information, and they have made no arrests.
Anyone with any information is asked to contact Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867.
According to the arrest affidavit, Sarah Bess, 18, and her fiance, Weston Owen, 18, had been living with the 62-year-old victim, who was identified in court Monday afternoon as Bess’s uncle. Bess and the victim had been out at a local bar Friday night with Owen who was the designated driver.
Interviews with Bess and Owen summarized in the affidavit offer conflicting reports on what happened on the drive home from the bar, but the victim allegedly made a move or motion that Owen took as an advance on Bess.
After they returned to the residence, the victim went to sleep and Owen called his friend Kellar Weisgerber, 21, to help “teach (the victim) a lesson,” according to the affidavit. Bess also allegedly sent messages through Snapchat, which automatically delete after a short period of time, to another person asking how to torture and murder someone. Read the full story at our partner, The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel.
Aurora police on Tuesday arrested a second person in connection with a homicide last month.
Diego Jimenez, a 26-year-old Aurora resident, was wanted on suspicion of second-degree murder in an Oct. 24 fatal shooting near East 6th Avenue and Del Mar Circle, police said on social media. Jimenez was also arrested on outstanding warrants from Weld County for aggravated motor vehicle theft, as well as a theft warrant out of Boulder.
Police previously arrested Sheena Fuentes, 41, on suspicion of accessory for her alleged role in the shooting, which occurred after Jimenez and the victim got into an altercation, authorities said.
The victim’s identity has not yet been released by the Arapahoe County Coroner’s Office.
Anyone with any information is asked to contact Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-STOP (7867). Tipsters can remain anonymous and could be eligible for a reward of up to $2,000.
Wilmer Chavarria was living the good life after faking his own death.
For four years, the Ecuadorean drug boss allied with Mexico’s Jalisco cartel moved among Dubai, Morocco and Spain, allegedly overseeing his drug empire and hit jobs back home—all while staying at the most exclusive hotels, Ecuador’s government said. To avoid detection, he underwent seven surgeries to alter his appearance and changed his name to Danilo Fernández.
Pakistan blamed India-backed militants for a suicide bombing that killed 12 people in Islamabad on Tuesday, raising the prospect of renewed tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals, as India’s prime minister vowed to hunt down the perpetrators of a car explosion in New Delhi the day before.
A blast on Monday near a metro station by New Delhi’s historic Red Fort set several nearby cars on fire,
killed eight and injured at least 20 others, Indian police said. The car had three or four passengers, all of whom died in the explosion, said police, who haven’t determined the cause of the blast.
Almost 40 years after a passerby found the skeletal remains of missing teenager Donna Sue Wayne in a northeast Aurora field, investigators finally identified a suspect in her death — a man already in prison for the murder and sexual assault of another woman killed in the city seven months after Wayne.
Richard “Ricky” Saathoff, 65, is charged with first-degree murder and second-degree kidnapping in Wayne’s death, according to the Arapahoe County District Attorney’s Office.
While some details of the 18-year-old’s disappearance have long been public knowledge, a newly filed Aurora Police Department arrest affidavit illuminates the winding path investigators trod for nearly 40 years, using DNA and fingerprint evidence along with witness statements to identify Saathoff as a suspect.
Donna Sue Wayne.
Wayne went missing after leaving her Aurora home to meet up with friends at a Montbello house party and bar the night of June 13, 1986.
She was last seen alive early the next morning, when a Stapleton airport worker saw her being physically and sexually assaulted by a man driving her green 1972 Ford LTD in the 800 block of North Picadilly Road.
Earlier reports described the car as red, but the arrest affidavit includes photos of the green Ford. The car was later destroyed. .
Wayne screamed for help before the man forced her back into the car, the woman told police. The woman drove to the nearest house to get help, but by the time police arrived, Wayne and the man were gone.
Wayne’s car was seen abandoned in Aurora’s Hoffman Heights neighborhood the next day, on June 15, 1986, but police did not link the car to Wayne until it was towed away two weeks later, an Aurora cold case investigator wrote in the affidavit.
Police lifted two fingerprints from the driver’s side window, and a neighbor found Wayne’s car keys, tossed in an evergreen bush down the block near Vaughn Elementary School, a few weeks later.
Wayne’s body was found by a passing driver in a northeast Aurora field littered with trash and debris one month after she was last seen alive, with her clothes and purse were strewn about the area, according to the affidavit.
Her exact cause of death was never confirmed because of how much her remains had decomposed, but she had multiple broken bones, including her jaw, ribs, clavicle and in her neck, chest and face.
The investigation seemed to stall after her body was found as police chased leads that did not pan out.
Fingerprint evidence from the driver’s side window was later misplaced and went missing for years, until it was found and retested in 2009, with no matches.
Investigators retested the fingerprints in a new system in 2012 and matched the two prints to Saathoff, who was already in prison after he was convicted of murder in the death of 40-year-old Norma Houston. Houston’s body was found naked, brutally beaten and assaulted near a gas station at 11697 E. Colfax Ave. on Jan. 18, 1987, seven months after Wayne’s death, police wrote.
Like Wayne, Houston had significant trauma to her head and a broken jaw, police wrote.
Houston was sexually assaulted, and though Wayne’s remains were too deteriorated to confirm sexual assault, her pants and underwear had been removed, like Houston’s.
Investigators linked Saathoff to Houston’s murder after his DNA was found on her clothes, and he was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison in June 1988. He is eligible for parole in June 2027, state records show.
After the 2012 fingerprint match, investigators tried to further link Saathoff to Wayne’s murder, according to the affidavit. A detective interviewed him in prison in 2014, and he denied knowing Wayne (and later denied killing Houston).
Investigators determined Saathoff lived with his parents in the same neighborhood where Wayne’s car was abandoned, and so did his ex-girlfriend.
In May, more than a decade after the fingerprint match, investigators again looked at Wayne’s clothes for a DNA sample, and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation found and tested DNA on Wayne’s jeans that had a high likelihood of belonging to Saathoff.
Saathoff remains in prison at the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility in Cañon City, according to state records. His next court date was not available Friday.
Daniel Romero, 19, was arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder and Michael Fernandez Jr., 24, was arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder in connection with a fatal shooting on Oct. 27, according to the Westminster Police Department.
Officers responded to 911 calls about gunshots at a parking lot in the 8400 block of Decatur Street around 8 p.m. and found a woman who had been shot inside a vehicle.
The woman was taken to the hospital and later died. She was identified by the Adams County Coroner’s Office as Maria Ines De Luna Ojeda, 34. The cause and manner of her death are under investigation.
Westminster police on Thursday said the shooting was a carjacking that turned deadly and identified Romero as the suspected shooter and Fernandez as the driver.
Romero and Fernandez are being held without bail at the Adams County Jail and are set to appear in court for a filing of charges hearing on Monday.
Swa Bay, 22, and Nu La, 23, were sentenced to 18 years in the Colorado Department of Corrections in September as part of plea agreements with the Denver district attorney’s office.
Bay and La, along with Pah Reh, 21, and Luh Reh, 23, were arrested and charged with murder after Kaing was killed by bullet from a nearby shooting while unloading food from her car outside her Xenia Street apartment complex on July 15, 2022.
Investigators accused the four men of firing more than three dozen rounds at a passing vehicle that they thought didn’t belong in the neighborhood.
In an unrelated case, Lu Reh was sentenced to an additional six years in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the 2022 shooting death of Ricardo Ryans.
For those of us who ride the commuter rails and subways daily, Saturday night’s mass stabbing on a London-bound train is a nightmare brought to life. In such confined and well-lit spaces, there isn’t any way to do what the experts say you should: run, hide and, as a last resort, fight.
A train car moving at high speed with the doors and windows closed is a violent psychopath’s dream—a veritable barrel full of unarmed, unsuspecting fish. Most of us have our heads buried in our phones, our ears distracted by music or podcasts. Some of us are poring over newspapers or dreamily watching the countryside fly by. Rarely do any of us do a threat assessment of those nearby. We are in our own little in-between place—not home, not at work. En route. Vulnerable.
A Denver man pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on Thursday for fatally stabbing a passing driver with a 3-foot sword in the city’s College View neighborhood.
Patrick Browne, 40, was arrested Sept. 29, 2024, after police said he stabbed 20-year-old Isaiah Martinez after a fight.
Martinez was driving in the area when he stopped at a red light at West Evans Avenue and South Lipan Street, where Browne was standing on the corner, according to Denver police.
Browne started arguing with Martinez and a passenger in the car and threw a drink through the car window. When Martinez and the passenger got out of the car, Browne pulled a large sword out of his roller suitcase and stabbed Martinez in the stomach as he was trying to get back in the car.
Martinez died at the hospital a short time later.
Browne was charged with first-degree murder, assault and felony menacing in the stabbing. All three charges were dismissed Thursday after he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, according to court records.
Browne faces 20 years in the Colorado Department of Corrections when he’s sentenced on Nov. 13, the Denver District Attorney’s Office said.
Deputies responded to multiple 911 calls about a shooting at a home in the 400 block of Cottonwood Lake Drive in Clifton at 11:50 p.m., the sheriff’s office said in a news release. Clifton is an unincorporated community east of Grand Junction.
Deputies found two victims with serious injuries and started CPR, but both were pronounced dead at the hospital about an hour later.
Investigators believe an “incident” caused one or more people to start shooting during the party, sheriff’s officials said. The shooting is being investigated as a double homicide.
The names of the victims will be released by the Mesa County Coroner’s Office.
Anyone with information about the shooting can contact non-emergency dispatch at 970-242-6707 and reference Mesa County Sheriff’s Office case number 25-41695.