A fatal shooting Saturday afternoon near Loveland is not believed to be related to a recent spate of random shootings in Northern Colorado, a Larimer County sheriff’s spokesman said.
Deputies and officers from the Loveland Police Department responded to the 5600 block of Thomas Court, near Horseshoe Lake, on a report of a shooting inside a house. A man was taken into custody, , and deputies found another man dead.
Neither man’s name has been released and the sheriff’s office offered no details about the incident. The Loveland Reporter-Herald reported that police believe the shooting may have been motivated by a neighborhood dispute.
“It is being investigated as unrelated to any other recent shootings,” David Moore, a public information officer for the Larimer sheriff, told The Denver Post.
Loveland police said late this week that they of a man near his house and two other shootings in recent months that appeared to be random. A Windsor town employee in May was shot twice, killing him, while he was bicycling along a county road. And in April, a woman survived a gunshot to the neck while she was driving on I-25.
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