Three vehicles driving in Aurora had windows shattered early Wednesday morning, but police do not believe they are linked to the ongoing investigation into similar incidents in northern Colorado.
All three vehicles Wednesday were eastbound on Hampden Avenue near South Buckley Road, said Judy Lutkin, an Aurora Police Department spokeswoman. The first happened about 12:40 a.m., the second about 2 a.m. and the third just before 3 a.m., Lutkin said. There were no injuries.
In two of the incidents, the projectile “didn’t penetrate the window,” Lutkin said, and in the third incident the window did not remain intact.
Aurora police do not believe the incidents are connected to the events in northern Colorado being investigated by the Weld County Task Force.
“We don’t believe it is linked to anything going on up north,” Lutkin said. “We don’t have any evidence linking it.”
She said the vehicles in Aurora likely had windows shot out by a pellet or BB gun. No Aurora residents reported hearing gunfire in the area early Wednesday morning.
“It did not come from a firearm. It’s a small projectile,” Lutkin said. “It’s a pellet or BB or something like that.”
Windows shattering on moving vehicles have been happening north of Denver along the in recent weeks.
Tuesday afternoon, a traveling south on Interstate 25 north of Denver near 144th Avenue was shattered.
Westminster police said Wednesday they have no new information on that case and “will remain in touch” with the Weld County task force looking into the deadly May shooting of a Windsor bicyclist and the April shooting of a woman driving on I-25.
During April, the Weld County Sheriff’s office received reports of 22 broken windshields, about 13 of those along the interstate.
The May 29 after the death of John Jacoby, a part-time worker for the town of Windsor who was shot twice while bicycling along a county road.
During that announcement, one of the task force members, Windsor Police Chief John Michaels, said there was evidence that connected Jacoby’s death and the April 22 incident in which Cori Romero was shot twice while driving on I-25.
She was shot in the neck but survived. Authorities say Romero and Jacoby were targeted randomly.
The task force also is working to determine on June 3 is linked to those two shootings.
Kieran Nicholson: 303-954-1822, knicholson@denverpost.com or twitter.com/kierannicholson
