Two men and a woman were shot and wounded in Commerce City early Sunday, police said.
Police said they received a call about 1:30 a.m. that there was a loud party going on in the 11600 block of Oswego Street in the River Run subdivision.
While officers were on the way, they heard several shots.
At the same time, people who were in the house where the party was being held started to drive and run away from the scene.
Two 19-year-old men from Westminster and a 19-year-old woman from Denver were taken to a hospital with gunshot wounds.
Their conditions and names were not released by police.
There were no suspects in custody in the shooting.
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AURORA
8 hurt on I-225 when car rear-ends SUV
Eight people were injured, three seriously, on Sunday when a Chrysler PT Cruiser struck a Ford Expedition in the rear on Interstate 225 near South Parker Road, according to the Colorado State Patrol.
According to a statement from the patrol, six passengers were riding in the car, driven by Angela M. Reed, 22, of Denver, when it collided with the sport utility vehicle driven by Sun Chon, 37, of Denver about 3:30 p.m.
Chon had slowed down for another motorist who was having tire problems when Reed struck the SUV, troopers said. Both drivers were wearing seat belts, and both were taken to area hospitals with moderate injuries. None of Reed’s passengers were wearing seat belts.
Three of those passengers – Craig Vinson, 25, of Littleton; Jacquelyn Paisal, 21, of Aurora; and Michael Martin, 23, of Centennial – had serious injuries, the State Patrol said.
Three others – Jillian Groh, 22, of Aurora; Robin Ferguson, 21, of Phoenix; and Tate McMillin, 23, of Englewood – had moderate injuries.
Alcohol and speed are suspected as contributing to the wreck, the State Patrol said, and an investigation is underway.
METRO AREA
Spring is in the air, at least for a few days
Front Range residents weary of snow and cold appear to be in for several days of what will seem like spring.
Forecasters expect high temperatures in and around Denver to be near, hit or exceed 60 degrees today through Thursday. Nighttime lows will be in the upper 20s or low 30s, the National Weather Service predicted.
The pleasant weather may taper off by Friday, and the week’s end may bring clouds and even a splash of precipitation, along with high temperatures in the 40s or 50s.
GLENWOOD SPRINGS
22 options identified for improving road
A draft study has identified 22 possible alternatives for improving travel along the Colorado 82 corridor in Glenwood Springs.
Ideas run the gamut from changing traffic-light timing and adding more lights on the highway, to building a new route along Lookout Mountain on the east edge of town at a potential cost of $600 million or more.
“What’s going to be covered in this is the logical to the ridiculous,” said City Council member Chris McGovern, also a member of the city’s Transportation Commission.
DENVER
Lawyer dies who once led worldwide group
Harold Healy Jr., a Denver native who was the first U.S. lawyer elected president of the world’s oldest international bar federation, died Sunday in New York.
The 85-year-old died at The Mount Sinai Hospital, said Wolcott Dunham, a partner at the Manhattan law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, where Healy was once a partner. Healy’s family declined to provide a cause of death, Dunham said.
Healy was the first U.S. lawyer elected president of the Union Internationale des Avocats, the world’s oldest international bar federation, according to Debevoise & Plimpton.
Healy was raised in Denver and in Casper.
OGDEN, Utah
State leads in abuse of prescribed painkillers
A federal study of painkiller use found Utah led the nation in nonmedical use of prescription drugs in 2004 and 2005, with 6.5 percent of the population using drugs without a doctor’s order.
The study was released last week by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and shows a troubling trend of prescription painkiller use by kids in junior high and high school, Weber-Morgan Narcotics Strike Force agent Randy Lythgoe said.
“It’s becoming an accepted thing to do in high school, because they (students) don’t associate danger with it,” he said.
The study showed 7.88 percent of 12- to 17-year-olds in Utah and 13.49 percent of 18- to 25-year-olds used prescription painkillers for nonmedical reasons.
The number was just 4.32 percent for those older than 25.
