Teams search for 8-year-old lost while on camping trip
Fremont County – An 8-year-old Lakewood boy was reported missing while camping with his family.
Evan Thompson was discovered missing at 10:40 a.m. Saturday and the Fremont County Search and Rescue Team began looking for him immediately.
Evan, who has attention deficit disorder, was last seen about 9:30 a.m. in the Cactus Cliff area off Shelf Road, an area where there are some steep limestone cliffs.
The road follows Fourmile Creek between Cañon City and Cripple Creek and is 500 feet above the creek at some points.
Authorities said Evan has brown hair and eyes, is 4 feet 4 inches tall, weighs 70 pounds and was wearing a gray sweat suit.
Along with Fremont County’s, search teams from Teller, Custer, El Paso and Larimer counties were looking for the child. Also, the Colorado Search and Rescue Board, Civil Air Patrol, Langley Air Force Base and the National Guard provided search teams.
LARIMER COUNTY
Driver dies in ATV crash; boy injured
A 30-year-old man died Saturday after crashing an all-terrain vehicle he was driving with a 10-year-old boy on board.
The boy suffered minor injuries and was flown to Poudre Valley Hospital for treatment.
The accident occurred on Forest Service Road 338 about 8 p.m. It appears the man lost control of the ATV while driving down a steep embankment, state patrol investigators said.
The ATV rolled on top of the man, who was not wearing a helmet or other protective gear.
The names of the man and child were not released Sunday.
DENVER
Man shot after taking fake gun from boy
A 37-year-old man was shot in the face and upper body Saturday night after taking a fake gun away from an 11-year-old boy.
The victim was involved in an argument with the boy outside a liquor store on West Ellsworth Avenue and Federal Boulevard before the shooting, police said.
Two men in a gold Taurus saw the man take the fake gun away from the child, and one of them fired a shotgun loaded with birdshot pellets at the victim, said Detective Virginia Quiñones.
The victim was conscious and talking when he arrived at a hospital about 9 p.m., Quiñones said.
Police are looking for the 11-year-old and the men in the Taurus. A motive for the shooting is unknown.
FEDERAL HEIGHTS
Woman, 50, killed by wrong-way driver
A driver going the wrong way on West 92nd Avenue crashed head-on into a 50-year-old woman driving a Ford Focus early Sunday, killing her.
The accident occurred at 12:34 a.m. west of Bryant Street.
The woman was driving west on 92nd when a 25-year-old man driving a 1999 Buick traveling east in the westbound lanes struck her car, police said.
Investigators suspect the 25-year-old was drunk.
The woman’s name was not released. The male driver’s name also was not released; he was taken to a hospital for treatment.
EDWARDS
Gypsum rafter, 57, dies after boat flips
A Gypsum man rafting on the Eagle River died Saturday after his boat flipped, Eagle County sheriff’s officials said.
The 57-year-old man and another man were thrown into the water when the boat capsized sometime before 2 p.m., sheriff’s Lt. Mike McWilliam said. Both men were wearing life vests, and both had several years of experience rafting, McWilliam said.
The other man swam to shore. Kayakers pulled the victim to shore and performed CPR for a half hour, McWilliam said. Neither alcohol nor drugs were considered to be factors in the accident, he said.
Meanwhile, a 30-year-old Boulder man was missing and feared dead in Vallecito Creek near Durango. He had been kayaking with friends on a one-mile stretch of the creek that runs through a steep gorge. The creek, in the San Juan National Forest’s Weminuche Wilderness, is considered an extremely difficult area for kayaking.
Members of the La Plata County Search and Rescue team and a helicopter searched Sunday for the unidentified man.
LOVELAND
Girl who died in lake accident identified
An 11-year-old girl who died Saturday after being rescued from the bottom of Lake Loveland the day before has been identified as Christina Marie Bass.
She had been swimming with a friend in the lake when she disappeared in the water Friday, the last day of school.
Searchers from the Loveland Dive Rescue Team found her about 20 minutes later. They performed CPR, and she was taken first to McKee Medical Center in Loveland and then transferred to The Children’s Hospital, where she died.
