Suspect in shooting captured after wreck
A man suspected of shooting his ex-wife Wednesday night in Commerce City was captured Thursday morning after he was involved in a traffic wreck, police said.
Brian Fossey, 40, crashed on Interstate 76 at mile marker 43 and was taken to Northern Colorado Medical Center in Greeley for treatment of minor injuries.
When Fossey is released from the hospital, he will be turned over to Commerce City police for investigation of first-degree assault.
Fossey’s 31-year-old ex-wife is recovering from a gunshot wound at Denver Health Medical Center. She was wounded in the parking lot of Elite Auto Glass on East 56th Avenue.
Two professors join Ward Churchill panel
The University of Colorado has added two scholars to a panel investigating professor Ward Churchill’s work.
The two new members – University of Texas English professor José Limón and Arizona State University law professor Robert N. Clinton – are replacing two professors who quit the committee after being criticized for defending Churchill last spring.
Robert A. Williams, a professor of law and American Indian studies at the University of Arizona, and Bruce Johansen, a Native American studies professor at the University of Nebraska, resigned in November, delaying the start of the investigation by two months.
Churchill, an ethnic-studies professor, will not teach any classes in the spring. He was allowed to take time off because in the past he has taught more classes than required, CU spokeswoman Pauline Hale said.
Two men sentenced in crack cocaine ring
A man who federal prosecutors say was a founding member of the Rolling 60s Crips, a Colorado street gang, was sentenced Thursday to 22 years in prison on crack cocaine distribution charges. Deon Rollen provided significant amounts of crack for others to sell, according to a sentencing statement filed in federal court.
One of Rollen’s distributors, Perry Syrie, was sentenced Thursday in federal court to 15 years in prison on related drug charges. According to court documents, Rollen regularly went to Syrie’s apartment to sell or give crack to Syrie and others for street sales. The men are among 31 people indicted in the 2004 case.
Murder suspect found guilty in weapons case
A man accused of murder in a July 4, 2004, homicide at an Aurora park was convicted in a separate weapons case Thursday in 18th Judicial District Court.
Robert Keith Ray, 20, was found guilty of two counts: weapons possession by a previous juvenile offender, a Class 6 felony, and carrying a concealed weapon, a Class 2 misdemeanor.
The jury deliberated about 90 minutes.
Ray will face trial in March over the July 4, 2004, shooting death of Gregory Vann, 22, at Aurora’s Lowry Park. Investigators believe that case is linked to a June 20 shooting that killed witness Javad Marshall-Fields and his fiancée, Vivian Wolfe.
Pilot killed in crash was on visit to his dad
A pilot killed when his single- engine plane crashed about 80 miles northeast of Phoenix has been identified as a resident of Crested Butte who was flying to Scottsdale, Ariz., to visit his hospitalized father.
Mike Martin, 41, was killed when the plane went down in a rugged area near Payson.
Civil Air Patrol pilots began searching for Martin’s Cessna 182 on Sunday morning after it was reported overdue. They spotted wreckage Tuesday afternoon. The plane had lost a wing when it hit a tree and burned on impact.
Man held in shootings of two missionaries
A man was charged with killing a Mormon missionary and wounding another from Colorado in a shooting that police believe occurred because the victims had witnessed a crime while they were discussing their religion door-to-door.
James Rickey Boughton Jr., 19, was arrested Wednesday at his Chesapeake, Va., home and was being held without bail, police said.
The missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints were shot Monday, and Morgan Winslow Young, 21, of Bountiful, Utah, died Monday evening. Police said the second man was 19 but declined to identify him. Church spokesmen said he is Joshua Heidbrink of Greeley.
Sen. Allard to hold town-hall event today
U.S. Sen. Wayne Allard will meet with constituents at a town-hall meeting at 3 p.m. today at the Windsor Gardens adult community in southeast Denver.
“I want to extend an invitation to everyone in the Denver area to attend a very informal community meeting,” Allard, R-Colo., said in a statement. “This is a chance for citizens to visit with me one-on-one about the issues that are important to them.”
The hour-long meeting will be held at the Windsor Gardens Community Activities Center, 595 S. Clinton St., near East Alameda Avenue and South Dayton Street.
For more information, call Allard’s local office at 303-220-7414.
