A man was shot and killed Thursday afternoon in the city’s Five Points neighborhood, marking Denver’s fifth gun death and seventh shooting in the past week, according to the department.
The Denver Police Department in the 1100 block of 32nd Street, near Mestizo-Curtis Park in Five Points, at 1:18 p.m. Thursday. One man — identified by the Denver Office of the Medical Examiner as 37-year-old Alexander Rainer — was shot and at the scene, police confirmed.
Kaylen Stroter, 22, was later arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder, .
In the past seven days, Denver police have confirmed seven shootings in which five people were killed and three were injured. That includes one fatal incident from Tuesday involving Denver officers, where an armed man hiding in an alley between Quitman and Perry streets refused to drop his weapon and was shot by police.
One person was killed in a shooting near an east Denver condo complex in the 10100 block of East Virginia Avenue on April 2, and another was injured late Friday night when in Denver’s Central Business District.
Two people were killed in shootings on Easter Sunday — one that started with a fight outside a bar near South Broadway and Maple Avenue early that morning, and one that shook crowds of people gathered at Russell Square Park that afternoon. That second shooting killed a woman and sent a man to the hospital, neither of whom has been publicly identified.
In addition to Thursday afternoon’s fatal shooting in Five Points, police also responded to an injury shooting in the 2000 block of Lawrence Street, just blocks away from Coors Field, . Paramedics took one victim to the hospital in unknown condition, and additional information about the shooting was not available.
None of the shootings were connected, Denver Police Department Communications Director Doug Schepman said in an email to The Denver Post.
This is a developing story and may be updated.
Updated at 1:07 p.m. on May 28, 2026: This story was updated to include the identity of a man who was killed.
