Denver police said a person was seriously injured when an auto and standup scooter collided Thursday night in the vicinity of Broadway and Alameda Avenue. In Aurora, a pedestrian was seriously injured by a vehicle at East Colfax Avenue and Havana Street, police said.
Friday, July 4, 2025
SERIOUS INJURIES THURSDAY NIGHT
Thursday, July 3, 2025
LET'S BARK AND MEOW FOR DENVER'S FOSTER PET FAMILIES
Denver Public Health & Environment says on social media: "A shout-out to Denver Animal Shelter's amazing foster families! See how incredibly well the shelter's longest-stay pup, Woodstock, is doing in foster care, including getting some good nap time in with Mickey, the cat! Wanna add a new member to the family? Woodstock is waiting!" [Photos: Denver Public Health & Environment]
PRICKLY PEDESTRIAN
SAFEWAY ALBERTSON'S STRIKE EXPANDS
Union workers are on strike at more than 40 Safeway and Albertson's supermarkets in Colorado, primarily the Denver area, UFCW Local 7 reports. The walkouts started in mid-June.
SEEK CLUES IN HOUSE PARTY HOMICIDE
Police are seeking clues in a deadly shooting at a pre-dawn house party in Aurora.
Jose Alberto Bautista-Marquez, 35, died in the 1500-block of Dallas Street on Jan. 30, 2022.
"Numerous people who attended the house party have been interviewed," Aurora police said. "Detectives are interested in speaking with anyone who might have additional information."
Call Crime Stoppers (720) 913-7867.
ROYBAL-SMITH NOW FACING CHARGES IN AURORA HOMELESS SLAYINGS, TOO
Accused triple-murderer
It's three strikes for Ricky Lee Roybal-Smith, law enforcement officials announced Wednesday.
Accused of killing of his cellmate at the Downtown Denver Detention Center early Monday, Roybal-Smith now faces murder charges in the stabbing deaths of two homeless men in Aurora.
Roybal-Smith, 38, was booked into the Denver jail on unrelated charges, including a parole violation, on Sunday afternoon.
The homeless men were killed in separate attacks on Moline Street and Peoria Street early Sunday.
"Detectives have since confirmed the two crimes are connected and Roybal-Smith faces first-degree murder charges for both incidents," Aurora police said.
The accused triple-murderer has a lengthy criminal record. He was set to be transferred to the Adams County jail.
[Photo: Denver Police Department]
LIFE PLUS 16 YEARS IN LODO SLAYING
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
COLD CASE FILE: COLDEST UNSOLVED MURDERS
Officer Phillips
Six of the oldest, coldest unsolved murders in Colorado occurred in Denver and Boulder County in the late 19th Century and early 20th Century.
On July 16, 1889, John C. Phillips, a Denver police officer, was fatally shot in the chest by a suspected burglar.
"Officer Phillips was able to return fire but did not strike the suspect, who fled the scene and was never caught," according to the Officer Down Memorial Page. "Officer Phillips made it to a call box and called for help but succumbed to his injuries a short time later."
On Aug. 13, 1899, Denver officer William Griffiths was shot pursuing a suspect in the murder of fellow policeman Thomas Clifford that same day. The killer was believed to be a drunken soldier who left town.
Another Denver police officer, William H. Beck, was shot by a suspected burglar on 16th Street on May 2, 1908. Beck's killer fled.
The archives of the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, meantime, list the Dec. 7, 1911, beating death of Charles Davenport, believed to be a transient, as its oldest cold case.
Davenport, 47, of Lander, Wyoming, was found beside a Lafayette railroad crossing - and a Boulder County coroner's jury determined he died from "blows inflicted by unidentified persons," according to the Rocky Mountain News.
The next oldest murder in the CBI's database is that of an unidentified man who died on New Year's Day 1912, also in Boulder County. "John Doe" was beloved to be about 60.
[Photo: Officer Down Memorial Page]
'DEATH IS MY SIDEKICK': CONVICTION IN HELLS LOVERS DOUBLE MURDER
A Denver jury Wednesday convicted Shon McPherson in the slaying of two men at the Hells Lovers Motorcycle Club, the DA's office said.
Three innocent bystanders were wounded in the Nov. 5, 2023, shooting on 33rd Avenue in the Park Hill neighborhood.
McPherson faces life in prison without parole for killing Michael David, 43, and Joshua Batts, 39, as well as other charges. He will be sentenced Aug. 11. The motto of the Hell's Lovers Motorcycle Club, a national organization, is "Death is my sidekick and the highway is my home." [Photo: Denver Police Department]
KICKIN' BACK
POLICE DETAIN STABBING SUSPECT
Denver police detained a person in a Tuesday night stabbing in the 2700-block of West 38th Avenue. The victim was transported to a hospital, officials said.
SERIOUS INJURIES IN PAIR OF I-25 MOTORCYCLE CRASHES
A motorcyclist suffered serious injuries in a hit-and-run crash Tuesday night at southbound I-25 and westbound Sixth Avenue, Denver police said. In a separate accident, two motorcycles and an auto collided at southbound I-25 and Park Avenue. One of the motorcyclists suffered serious injuries. The motorist remained on the scene.
POLICE SHOOT GUNMAN IN MONTEBELLO
UPDATE
Denver police shot and wounded a man welding a gun Tuesday night in the 4300-block of North Del Rio Court in Montebello. Chief Ron Thomas said police "don't know why he drew a weapon."
BRUSH FIRE AT DIA
A suspected lightning strike caused a brush fire Tuesday west of the main terminal at Denver International Airport. "There are no impacts to flight operations," airport officials said.
GUILTY OF MURDER
A city jury Tuesday convicted James Lee Sanchez, 32, of first-degree murder in the 2024 shooting death of a woman, the Denver DA's office said. Sanchez, who is being held at the Downtown Detention Center, faces a life sentence in state prison without parole for killing Desiree Terrazas, 39, during a domestic dispute. The crime occurred in the 2700-block of West Iliff Avenue on March 2, 2024, the DA said. Sentencing is set for Sept. 2.
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
COLD CASE FILE: DENVER MOM OF THREE MISSING SINCE 1967
On the evening of July 24, 1967, Elaine Fauver, 38, left her home on Corona Street in Denver to visit a friend, who later told police she departed his residence in the company of another man.
Fauver has been missing ever since.
Her son located his mother's Chevrolet days later parked on East 17th Avenue, between Emerson and Ogden streets, as well as her purse and keys.
The divorced mother of three was employed by the Mountain States Telephone Company, according to a missing person database, the Charley Project.
Fauver was 5-foot-3, with brown eyes and hair and weighed 125 pounds, according to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. She was born on April 9, 1929.
TEACHER CHARGED
A former Commerce City teacher has been charged with felony sexual assault of a sixth-grade student almost a decade ago, police said Tuesday. The alleged crime occurred at Landmark Academy in 2016.
POLIS: U.S. SENATE VOTE 'SHAMEFUL'
Reacting to U.S. Senate passage of President Trump's "Big, Beautiful" tax cut bill, Colorado Governor Jared Polis, a Democrat, said "Republicans in the Senate voted to kick Americans off health care, raise costs on insurance, kill jobs, increase our deficit and debt, and make it harder for kids to access food. This shameful vote comes at the expense of hardworking Coloradans."
NOW IT'S MURDER! BOULDER FIREBOMB VICTIM, 82, DIES
UPDATE
Boulder city officials said Karen Diamond, 82, died of severe burns sustained in the horrific Pearl Street firebomb attack of June 1 - and the suspect now faces first-degree murder charges in the antisemitic crime.
Diamond passed away last week, the lone fatality. She was treated at the University Colorado Hospital burn unit in Aurora.
The Boulder County district attorney's office has identified 29 attack victims suffering various degrees of burns and injuries. Holocaust survivor, Barbara Steinmetz, 88, was among those hurt in the attack.
Colorado Governor Jared Polis said: "This loss is deeply felt by the Boulder community and our entire state, particularly within our strong Jewish community." District Attorney Michael Dougherty said: "Our office will fight for justice for the victims, their loved ones, and the community."
Shortly after the attack, Steinmetz, the holocaust survivor, said the crime “has nothing to do with the Holocaust, it has to do with a human being that wants to burn other people."
“It’s about what the hell is going on in our country,” the furious Steinmetz said on NBC. “What the hell is going on?”
"We’re Americans," she said. "We are better than this. That’s what I want them to know. That they be kind and decent human beings."
AUTO, SCOOTER CRASH; 1 HURT
A person suffered serious injuries Monday in a collision between an auto and a scooter in the vicinity of Martin Luther King Boulevard and Quebec Street, according to Denver police.
DENVER JAIL PRISONER ACCUSED OF KILLING CELLMATE
UPDATE
Denver police accused a prisoner at the Downtown Detention Center of killing his cellmate early Monday.
Ricky Lee Roybal-Smith, 38, faces charges of first-degree murder, police said. They did not disclose the manner of death nor the name of the dead inmate.
[9News reported Roybal-Smith "is a person of interest in a pair of fatal stabbings in Aurora the day prior." The 9News report couldn't be independently confirmed.]
Downtown Detention Center records show the 5-foot-6 Smith was booked into the jail Sunday on drug and motor vehicle charges as well as a parole violation.
POLICE IDENTIFY 'PERSON OF INTEREST' IN AURORA HOMELESS SLAYINGS
UPDATE The Aurora Police Department identified a "person of interest" in the slayings of two homeless men early Sunday. He was arrested Sunday afternoon in another jurisdiction and is being held on unrelated charges, police said Monday night. The killings are most likely connected "based on the timeline, proximity of locations, and similarities in injuries," police said. At 1:45 a.m. Sunday, police found a man suffering fatal stab wounds crumpled on the sidewalk in the 1500-block of Moline Street. Just before 6:30 a.m., police found another man near a bus stop on Peoria Street, south of East Colfax Avenue, also suffering fatal stab wounds.
"While the circumstances leading up to the fatal stabbings are not yet known - including whether the victims were specifically targeted because of their housing status - the department activated its Homeless Abatement and Relocation Team," police said. Regarding the person of interest in killings, police said: "We won’t release his identity unless he is formally arrested or charged in connection to these homicides." Police also disclosed that "investigators are actively following up on leads, including searching for and reviewing surveillance footage from the vicinity." If you have information, call the anonymous Crime Stoppers phone line at (720) 913-7867. Tipsters may be eligible for a reward of up to $2,000.CHAMPA WALL FALL
Denver police Monday closed Champa Street between Broadway and 2oth Street after the wall of a one-story commercial building collapsed onto parked autos. No injuries were reported.
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