Fight in intersection leaves one man dead
A 36-year-old man was shot to death Thursday morning during a fight with two men in a Thornton intersection, police said.
Officers found Anthony Wayne Muse dead from gunshot wounds at the intersection of East 120th Avenue and Interstate 25 about 12:29 a.m.
Authorities say Muse was walking east on the south side of 120th Avenue when an argument started between him and a male passenger in a white SUV that was driving by.
Police said witnesses told them that Muse hit the SUV with his hand as it passed him.
The man got out of the SUV and started fighting with Muse.
During the fight, the driver of the SUV also got out and fired shots at Muse, killing him, police said.
The two men got back in the SUV and drove away.
The attack appears to be random and there is no indication that Muse knew the men, police said.
Muse’s family members declined to comment.
Anyone with information about the two men in the SUV is asked to call the Thornton police tip line at 720-977-5069.
CU contests claim of new evidence in case
In the continuing battle over whether to reinstate a dismissed lawsuit against the University of Colorado, lawyers for the school on Thursday filed documents contesting the assertion that there is new, relevant evidence in the case. Lawyers for Lisa Simp son, a former student who says she was raped by football players or recruits, have argued that new evidence, improperly withheld by the university, has emerged that depicts a pattern of sexual improprieties that university officials knew about.
One of the allegations involves a female student trainer who said she was sexually harassed in 2001 at a Boulder hotel. In a response to those allegations, CU lawyers said that no university officials with the proper authority knew about the incidents before Dec. 7, 2001, the night Simpson says she was assaulted. In a heavily redacted filing, CU said there is no evidence the university’s head trainer, Steve Willard, knew about the hotel incident before Simpson’s alleged assault.
10 scientists elected association fellows
Ten scientists in Colorado have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for 2005, the association said Thursday.
The scientists include five professors from the University of Colorado at Boulder, one from CU-Denver and two from Colorado State University.
The new CU-Boulder fellows are Leslie Leinwand and Andrew Staehelin of molecular, cellular and developmental biology; Peter Molnar of geological sciences; Payson Sheets of anthropology; and Michael Shull of astrophysical and planetary sciences.
Other Colorado scientists selected were Paul Bunn of CU-Denver and the Health Sciences Center; William Lauenroth and Graeme Stephens of Colorado State University; Alan Harris of the Space Science Institute in Boulder; and Richard Forester of the U.S. Geological Survey in Denver.
In all, 376 people were elected this year by their science peers.
GI chokes to death in Kuwait dining hall
A 21-year-old soldier from Wheat Ridge died in Kuwait after choking on something he ate in a military dining facility, military officials said Thursday.
Army Cpl. Benjamin D. Hoeffner, 21, died Tuesday in Ali Al Salem, the Defense Department said.
He was assigned to the Army Reserve’s 324th Psychological Operations Company, based in Aurora.
Wooing sheepherders could become a crime
A legislative committee on Thursday backed a proposal to make offering a better job to a Wyoming sheepherder a crime.
If approved by the Legislature, the bill would make it a crime punishable by up to a year in jail and a fine up to $20,000 to offer a job to a sheepherder with the knowledge that doing so would cause sheep to be abandoned on the open range.
The legislation was proposed by the Wyoming Wool Growers Association to discourage the hiring of sheepherders – who typically are foreigners earning no more than $800 a month – for jobs in the booming gas industry and others in need of more workers.
Bryce Reece, executive vice president of the Wyoming Wool Growers Association, said such a law would protect Wyoming sheep ranchers, many of whom have substantial amounts of money invested in flocks.
“This is a very specific, very narrow bill in terms of requirements,” he told committee members. “But for our industry, it’s crucially important.”
