FORT COLLINS — Police are still looking for the suspect in a shooting Monday of a Colorado State University student.
“It seemed so random,” said Mary, a friend of the student who was shot. Mary did not want her last name used.
The shooting victim, Jamie Warfield, 22, remains hospitalized. She was upgraded to fair condition on Tuesday. She was working to complete her last course before graduation at CSU. Her friends say she had plans to join the Air Force after obtaining her degree in sports medicine.
One of Warfield’s friends and police said a small group was walking back from the bars in Old Town in Fort Collins shortly before 2 a.m. Monday and was about to walk into an apartment at Myrtle and Remington streets when a vehicle approached, going slowly.
The apartment resident, who asked her name be withheld due to the ongoing police investigation, said the group had been out celebrating a friend’s 21st birthday. They had been to Tony’s, the Drunken Monkey and then Lucky Joe’s, she said, but hadn’t been drinking much.
She said they then walked to the 7-Eleven at Mulberry and Remington to get Slurpees and snacks. The convenience store is a block away from the apartment.
The group was steps from the apartment when War- field was shot.
According to police, witnesses variously reported the vehicle as a darker-colored truck or possibly a light or dark-colored SUV.
There was no altercation and the shooting appears to be random, police said.
“To think someone can get away with it and say it was just for fun,” Mary said. “It’s just not funny to me.”
Anyone with information is asked to contact police Detective Siobhan Jungmeyer at 970-416-2195.
