Denver prosecutors have charged two men in connection with a shooting in Lower Downtown, Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey said Thursday.
Calvin Kosik, 26, was charged Wednesday with first-degree assault, felony menacing and possession of a controlled substance, and Ockey Peterson, 33, was charged with two counts of felony menacing, according to a news release.
The charges allege that Kosik and Peterson became involved in a dispute over a parking spot Nov. 5 in the 1500 block of Stout Street and a man was shot, prosecutors said.
Kosik is in jail on $75,000 bond, and Peterson was released on $5,000 bond.
Suspect arrested in shooting at mobile home park COMMERCE CITY — A man wanted in connection with a Monday shooting at a mobile home park in Commerce City was arrested Wednesday night in Denver.
Tirrell Audrelius Middleton, 27, is being held at the Denver County Jail on two counts of attempted first-degree murder.
On Monday night, a 16-year-old was shot at the park, 7110 Colorado 2 in Commerce City, and three males, all described as wearing white T-shirts, jeans and blue bandannas, were seen running from the area.
Teen pleads guilty to killing girlfriend’s mother
BOULDER — An 18-year-old from Lafayette pleaded guilty Thursday to stabbing his girlfriend’s mother to death this year.
His plea deal to second-degree murder stipulates that Bryan Grove will receive 40 years in prison for the death of 52-year-old Linda Damm.
He will be formally sentenced in January.
Two other teenagers, Jared Smith and Jared Guy, already have pleaded guilty to helping move the body.
Damm’s daughter, Tess, 15 at the time of the murder, is scheduled for a Feb. 18 jury trial on first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder and other charges, according to the Boulder County district attorney’s office.
If convicted, Tess Damm faces life in prison without the possibility of parole. She pleaded not guilty Sept. 28.
According to accounts in court documents, Grove and Damm plotted the killing Feb. 4 and stuffed Linda Damm’s body into the trunk of her car. An anonymous tip led police to the body Feb. 28.
Grove and Tess Damm were living together in Linda Damm’s Lafayette home.
Death of baby in crash ruled a homicide
GRAND JUNCTION — The Mesa County coroner’s office has ruled as a homicide the death of a newborn following a two-vehicle crash that injured her mother.
Chief Deputy Coroner Rob Kurtzman said the baby whom 26-year-old Shea Lehnen had been carrying died of asphyxia because the crash damaged Lehnen’s placenta and limited blood flow to the fetus.
Doctors at St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction performed an emergency cesarean section on Lehnen after she was involved in a head-on crash Nov. 6. Kurtzman said the girl died after doctors delivered her.
The Colorado State Patrol said 24-year-old Logan Lage was driving a Jeep Cherokee, leading a trooper on pursuit, when he crossed a double yellow line on Colorado 65 to pass a semi and hit Lehnen’s Nissan.
