Man and woman killed in Thornton apartment complex
THORNTON — A man and a woman were reportedly shot dead Saturday night in an apartment complex, and police were searching for the gunman.
The shooting took place shortly before 7 p.m. at the Autumn Chase apartment complex, 9122 Gale Blvd., according to police.
The suspect is described as a white male in his 30s, 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighing about 230 pounds. He was wearing a sweat suit.
Police spokesman Matt Barnes told Fox 31 news that the man was killed when he opened the door to his apartment, and a 41-year-old woman inside was also shot to death.
Man who died in crash identified as transplant patient
BOULDER COUNTY — A 17-year-old Superior man was killed when his vehicle ran off Colorado 119 and crashed into an embankment and a large rock, according to the Colorado State Patrol.
The driver, identified as Darin Weidert, was taken to Boulder Community Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. A female passenger identified as Samantha Hawkins, 16, also of Superior, was not injured.
Weidert’s father, Ed Weidert, told the Boulder Daily Camera that his son, a pioneer infant heart transplant patient at Children’s Hospital, had died of a heart attack.
The recent graduate of Monarch High School had two heart transplants as a child, and the organ was beginning to fail again, his father said.
“Last night his heart just gave out,” Ed Weidert said on the Camera’s website.
The crash happened about 7:25 p.m. Friday at mile marker 33 on Colorado 119.
Two men found dead in Castle Rock
CASTLE ROCK — Castle Rock police are investigating the deaths of two men whose bodies were found Saturday afternoon in a pickup parked in an apartment complex garage.
Police would not comment on the discovery, which a witness said was made about 2 p.m. at Pines at Castle Rock apartments, just north of the Outlets at Castle Rock. The Douglas County coroner’s office said the victims were both males but refused to release any additional information.
Head-on collision kills Englewood woman
LAKEWOOD — A 43-year-old Englewood woman was killed when the car she was driving was rammed head-on by a car driven by a 63-year-old Lakewood man early Saturday.
The crash occurred about 2:25 a.m. at Wadsworth Boulevard and Jefferson Avenue in Lakewood.
Colorado State Police said vehicular homicide charges are pending against Martin Lewis, whose car rammed into one driven by Malissa Coenen. She died at the scene. Lewis suffered minor injuries.
Police said alcohol may have been involved in the accident.
Air Force Academy phasing out ER, hospital
COLORADO SPRINGS — The war-stressed military is shutting down the Air Force Academy’s emergency room and its inpatient hospital. The two civilian hospitals that will take over the burden of serving more than 100,000 people say it will not be a problem.
The Colorado Springs Gazette reported Saturday the academy will phase out the services starting April 1.
The academy’s health staff will be cut by more than half as part of the plan by the federal Base Realignment and Closure Commission. The same plan will bring thousands more troops to Fort Carson.
