DENVER – A man was shot in the leg at an ATM on Tuesday evening in the 700 block of Colorado Boulevard, police said.
The attack occurred just before 8:30 p.m., and detectives were trying late Tuesday to determine whether the gunman was attempting to rob the victim, Denver police Detective John White said.
The man told police that the gunman drove off in an older- model silver BMW. No details were available about the victim’s condition.
ORE BRIEFS
LONE TREE
Mall trimming shuttle
to weekends only
The Park Meadows shopping center plans to convert daily shuttle-bus service between the mall and the County Line light-rail station to weekend- only service beginning Feb. 24.
The former owners of Park Meadows blocked RTD from constructing direct pedestrian access from the County Line train platform to the nearby mall.
The new mall owners are allowing RTD to build a bridge from the platform to the mall, but it won’t be finished until early in 2008.
Since the southeast light-rail line opened in November, Park Meadows and RTD have shared the cost of the daily shuttle-bus service.
DENVER
Murder charges filed in New Year’s deaths
An 18-year-old man has been charged in the stabbing deaths of two men at a New Year’s party.
Juan Valenciano is accused of fatally stabbing Efrain Lozano, 24, and John Estrada, 29, according to a news release from the Denver district attorney’s office.
The two counts of first-degree murder allege that on Dec. 31, a fight broke out at a New Year’s party in the 200 block of Yates Street and during the altercation the two men were stabbed by Valenciano, the release said.
Valenciano is being held without bail.
DENVER
Magazine says city’s water best in country
Denver was chosen as having the best water in the country, according to Men’s Health magazine.
The magazine said it evaluated 100 cities’ water supplies by examining the “most recent data on levels of arsenic, lead, halo-acetic acids and total trihalomethanes (linked to cancer), and total coliform bacteria, plus the number of EPA water-system violations from 1995 to 2005.”
PUEBLO
Blizzard benefit
set for March 18
A concert to benefit southeastern Colorado farmers and ranchers affected by recent blizzards will be March 18 at the Events Center at the Colorado State Fairgrounds in Pueblo.
Michael Martin Murphey will headline “Operation Blizzard Benefit” and the Pueblo Symphony Orchestra and others will also perform.
A guitarist and songwriter, Murphey has been named a “Western Music Hall of Fame Inductee.”
His career dates to the 1970s with his first big hit, “Wildfire.” He has secured his place in country music with six gold records.
Tickets range from $25 to $35 and are available through Ticketmaster, or can be charged by phone at 303-830-TIXS.
GOLDEN
10-year sentence for causing fatal crash
A woman whose blood-alcohol level was four times the legal limit was sentenced to 10 years in prison and five years of mandatory parole Tuesday for killing a Thornton woman and seriously injuring her sister-in-law.
Susan Elaine Chambers, 40, of Golden caused a four-car collision on U.S. 6 that killed Mary Mossman and injured Irene Mossman on Thanksgiving Day 2005 as they drove to Black Hawk.
In December, Chambers pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide-driving under the influence and vehicular assault-driving under the influence.
COLORADO SPRINGS
Coroner: Ex-GI killed on I-25 was drunk
A former soldier who died while driving the wrong way on Interstate 25 was drunk when she crashed head-on into a Chevy Suburban, authorities said.
The El Paso County coroner’s office said Jessica Rich had a blood-alcohol level of 0.202, well above the 0.08 limit for driving drunk in Colorado, when she crashed at 10:25 p.m. Thursday.
Rich, 24, who had served in Iraq with the Army Reserve, told The Denver Post in 2004 that she was medically evacuated from the war zone for back problems and post-traumatic stress disorder.
LAFAYETTE
Judge quits over tougher pot penalties
A judge has resigned to protest a proposal to impose stiffer city penalties for marijuana possession.
Leon Frieling, a Boulder attorney, resigned Monday as an associate municipal judge in Lafayette, citing an ordinance that would set a fine of up to $1,000 and a jail term of up to a year for possessing marijuana.
The existing city fine is $100, the same penalty set under state law.
The City Council tentatively approved the new penalties last week. Final approval could come next week.
“I cannot in good conscience sit on the bench while being unwilling to enforce the municipal ordinances,” Frieling’s letter said.
Mayor Chris Berry said he had not seen Frieling’s letter and could not comment on its contents.
