More arrests may follow as the investigation continues, Aurora Police Department spokesperson Katie Fisher said. Police are still trying to identify several teenagers who damaged or stole from local businesses, or who committed other crimes during the Aug. 30 incident, she said.

Aurora police officers shopping center near East Sixth Avenue and Peoria Street at about 1:30 p.m. Aug. 30, when hundreds of teenagers gathered in the parking lot after an unpermitted basketball event: Quincy’s Community Classic.

Attendees of the back-to-school basketball tournament merged with crowds from the , another basketball event, Aurora police Detective Matt Campbell said during a Monday news conference. Social media influencers showed up after that and, as the increased attention drew more and more people to the area, the event “rapidly devolved,” he said.

“This event was not sanctioned in any capacity,” Campbell said.

Police started receiving 911 calls as the crowd grew, with people reporting road blockages, weapons and fights among teenagers in the crowd, Aurora police Chief Todd Chamberlain said during the news conference.

By the time police arrived, an estimated 750 to 1,000 people had gathered, Chamberlain said. Police previously said most of the crowd was teenagers between the ages of 14 and 17.

The group became an “unlawful gathering” when teens started breaking the law, vandalizing property and stealing merchandise from nearby businesses, including a restaurant and a grocery store, Chamberlain said. Dozens of officers were rerouted from across the city to disperse the crowd and “restore order,” he said.

This was not the first “teen takeover” incident reported in metro Denver. Roughly 300 teenagers gathered at The Shops at Northfield in June, . The threat of another takeover in Denver’s City Park that month led to an early closure of the Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance.

“When you start to have violence, when you start to have property damage, when you start to have community concerns … this is no longer a peaceful event. This is no longer something that can be tolerated,” Chamberlain said.

As of Monday’s news conference, two teenagers had been arrested and arrest warrants had been submitted for four others, Campbell said. All six of the teenagers identified were boys between the ages of 13 and 17, Fisher said.

Campbell said the charges under investigation include assault, reckless endangerment, disorderly conduct, theft and injury to property. Police did not identify any of the boys involved or release information on their criminal backgrounds because they are minors.

One of the fights that broke out during the “takeover” left a person unconscious at Del Mar Park, he said. The teenagers involved in that fight are facing assault charges, Campbell said.

“We are not holding a crowd responsible,” Chamberlain said. “We are holding those individuals responsible for their own conduct. … They made that decision to take advantage of a location, of a venue, of a problem and make it much, much worse.”

It’s unclear whether the event organizers, who did not apply for a permit or notify police of the potential crowds, or the social media influencers who exacerbated the incident can be charged. Chamberlain said that it’s still under review by the city attorney.

These incidents “occur quite often,” he said. It’s rare for one of this size and severity to happen in Aurora, though, he said.

“There’s no finger-pointing on this,” Chamberlain said. “This is something that unfortunately unfolded very quickly, but it could have been any city, any jurisdiction.”

Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact investigators at rijordan@auroragov.org.

The responded to the Hoffman Heights shopping center near East Sixth Avenue and North Peoria Street at 1:30 p.m. for a large group, mainly teens between 14 and 17 years old, gathering in the parking lot after an unpermitted sporting event.

People started walking onto the street and smaller groups went into nearby businesses, including a restaurant and grocery store, and vandalized property and stole merchandise, the Aurora Police Department said in a news release.

Officers declared it an unlawful assembly and ordered the crowd to disperse, which required more than 70 officers to respond, police officials said.

Investigators are still reviewing video and other evidence to identify people suspected of criminal activity.

“The overwhelming majority of young people in our community make good decisions every day,” Aurora Police Chief Todd Chamberlain said in a statement. “But a crowd can create a false sense of anonymity and encourage individuals to make decisions they might never make on their own. If you commit a crime in a crowd, you should expect us to use every tool that we have available to work to identify you and hold you accountable.”

Problems with “teen takeovers” — large gatherings of young people in public spaces that devolve into (sometimes criminal) chaos — have popped up across metro Denver in recent years.

Anyone with information about the incident in Aurora can contact Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 730-913-7867.

Attorneys for Rajon Belt-Stubblefield’s estate, wife and eight children filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Denver on Sunday against the city of Aurora and Officer Matthew Neely, who is also facing second-degree murder and manslaughter charges in Belt-Stubblefield’s death after he was indicted by an Arapahoe County grand jury earlier this month.

In the 144-page complaint, attorneys with Denver law firms Ascend Counsel and Newman McNulty described Belt-Stubblefield’s killing as “the predictable product of the Aurora Police Department¶¶Ňőap longstanding customs and practices of unnecessary escalation, excessive force and racially biased policing.”

“In spite of years of community outcry for change; a finding by the Colorado Attorney General that the Aurora Police Department engages in excessive force, biased policing, and excessive force on Black people; and millions and millions of dollars of civil rights settlements and judgments, Aurora refuses to change,” attorneys wrote in the lawsuit.

When reached by email, Aurora police spokesperson Kristopher McDowell said the department generally does not comment on pending litigation.

In a statement Wednesday, Neely’s attorneys with the Denver firm Front Line Law said they will not continue to argue facts surrounding either the criminal or civil cases in the media out of respect for Belt-Stubblefield, his family and friends.

“There’s a real difference between the full facts of what happened and carefully crafted accusations that a lawyer writes into a lawsuit for purposes of litigation,” attorney Carrie Slinkard said in a statement.

“A lawsuit can say almost anything since it¶¶Ňőap only one side of the story — this one claims that Officer Neely has an established pattern of racially biased policing, but no real evidence backs that up,” she continued.

The lawsuit makes eight claims against the city and Neely, including for excessive force, violating the equal protection clause in the 14th Amendment, wrongful death and intentional infliction of emotional distress for killing Belt-Stubblefield in front of his son.

Among the claims is that Neely’s decision to again shoot Belt-Stubblefield after he had already shot him twice in the chest was “independently unreasonable.”

“During that interval (after the first two shots,) Neely had time to observe that Mr. Belt-Stubblefield had stopped. Neely visibly changed the angle of his firearm, re-aimed from Mr. Belt-Stubblefield’s torso toward his head, and made what Neely later described as a conscious decision to ‘change the target,’ ” attorneys wrote.

Neely’s attorneys on Wednesday said they reject any claim that he fired his gun after the danger had passed.

Aurora residents had filed complaints against Neely for racial profiling and “racially selective traffic enforcement” in 2014, 2020, 2022 and 2025, including 36 days before Belt-Stubblefield’s death, according to the complaint.

Department officials closed all of the complaints for being unfounded, mirroring previous incidences where the agency classified all bias complaints in previous years as unfounded or exonerated.

“Aurora’s bias-complaint process did not fail to detect a hidden pattern; it received the pattern, recorded it, coded it, and closed it,” attorneys for Belt-Stubblefield’s family wrote.

The lawsuit also describes Neely as having a longstanding reputation in the department for problematic policing and use of force, which was not logged in official systems or records. Neely was allowed to return to work days after Belt-Stubblefield’s death, and the department has imposed “no known discipline” against him, nor interviewed Belt-Stubblefield’s son or other eyewitnesses, the family’s attorneys wrote.

Belt-Stubblefield’s family is seeking unspecified monetary damages, including for loss of life, emotional distress and grief.

Jamie Gardner, 53, turned himself in to the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday, according to a .

Gardner faces one felony charge of leaving the scene of an accident involving death, county court records show. He was released Tuesday on $50,000 bail, police said.

Dispatchers were first alerted to a downed bicyclist near South Powhaton Road and East Jewell Avenue shortly after 9:30 a.m. July 27, . The bicyclist, 26-year-old Arthur Williams, was dead when police arrived.

Investigators identified a white Subaru Outback SUV as a suspect vehicle in the hit-and-run and used Flock cameras to track down the driver, police said. The cameras captured a heavily damaged Subaru leaving an Aurora neighborhood July 28 and linked the car’s license plate to Gardner, police said.

A warrant was issued Friday for Gardner’s arrest.

This is a developing story and may be updated.

Armanni Woods, a 31-year-old from Colorado Springs, was arrested by the Aurora Police Department’s fugitive unit and the Colorado Springs Police Department’s SWAT team, police said in a Monday afternoon update. He is suspected of first-degree murder, police said.

The arrest stems from a fatal shooting first discovered shortly before 7:30 a.m. Sunday, near East Warren Avenue and South Galena Street in west Aurora. Investigators believe the victim, a 49-year-old man who has not yet been publicly identified, was shot hours earlier in the 2200 block of South Havana Street, about a block away, police said.

The man who was shot will be identified by the Arapahoe County Coroner’s Office.

This is a developing story and may be updated.

Since its opening last November, a cascade of challenges has plagued the 640-bed homeless facility, which acts as a one-stop shop for those seeking shelter and help getting back on their feet. Moldy rooms, plumbing problems with attendant smells and horrors of raw sewage, a shortage of case managers and hundreds of calls to police.

The bulk of the former Crowne Plaza Hotel that houses the navigation campus is closed for remediation, temporarily eliminating a whole level of care for people showing the most progress on their road to stability.

Things got off to a bad start so quickly that the head of the organization that operates the navigation campus, , told city leaders just two months after its debut that “we weren’t ready” to open the facility.

As long ago as mid-January, one of Aurora’s City Council members asked staff if the city could if things didn’t improve.

Ultimately, the contract with Advance Pathways wasn’t nixed. And now, nine months to the day since the navigation campus was opened, things are on the mend. Fewer 911 calls are being made from the facility (emergency calls dropped 24% from the first quarter of 2026 to the second), more case managers are on duty and some of the most egregious physical issues with the building have been addressed.

As of June 30, 39 people have been moved to permanent housing since the facility opened on Nov. 17. An average of anywhere from 240 to 280 people spend the night at the Aurora Regional Navigation Campus.

The campus served nearly 26,000 meals in April, with that number climbing to nearly 35,000 in June. But there is still work to be done, said Stephanie Keiper, Aurora’s manager of homelessness and behavioral health.

“Any new program is going to need time, and it’s going to have kinks,” Keiper said. “We knew as we were opening the building, we’d have to do some pivoting. We knew some things were at end of life.”

Aurora bought the defunct hotel at East 40th Avenue and Chambers Road in 2024 and renovated it over the next year — spending a total of $40 million. With winter coming on, there was an urgency to have a place for the city’s homeless population to seek shelter.

The Metro Denver Homeless Initiative’s annual revealed an increasing number of people unhoused in Aurora this year. In its one-night survey in January, the organization counted .

That was up from 626 last year and 697 in 2024.

Despite inspections, problems with the 45-year-old building didn’t reveal themselves right away, Keiper said. Once people started using the facility full force, the weaknesses became apparent.

“We’re not going to see what the plumbing is doing when people aren’t flushing several times a day,” Keiper said.

Incentive-based tier system

The Aurora Regional Navigation Campus is structured on a unique incentive-based model. Its approach consists of three tiers, with each level more desirable for the client to reach.

The first tier is made up of nearly 300 cots, divided by sex. There are lockers for personal belongings and shared bathrooms. Anyone is welcome. The next tier, which is physically separate from the first, features an array of 114 compartmentalized, open-air cubicles with proper beds and lockable storage.

Tier II residents are assigned case managers to help them manage personal challenges and get on the path toward landing a job. Jim Goebelbecker, executive director of Advance Pathways, said movement between Tier I and Tier II has improved since the winter.

“It is smoother now than it was three, four, five months ago,” he said.

At Tier III, a resident gets to live in one of the former hotel’s 255 private rooms. To earn a spot in this highest level, the person must have a full-time job and pay a third of their income to the program. Residents in this tier will typically remain at the facility for up to two years before they have the skills and stability to find housing on the outside, Goebelbecker said.

But with Tier III’s rooms in need of mold remediation, Goebelbecker worries about the continuity the program is supposed to provide.

“How do we keep the spirit of that Tier III pathway alive and reasonably available during the renovation period?” he said. “It interrupts the flow.”

Crews have been hired to make the rooms fit for occupancy, and Keiper said floors in the six-story building will come online in a staggered fashion, with the first floor expected to open by October. She expects the entire building to be fully operational by sometime in 2027.

Aurora hasn’t determined the full cost of the renovation but has earmarked $1 million in its capital projects fund this year to pay for the work. The city has also budgeted $500,000 this year — and in each of the next three years — for maintenance at the campus.

“We were building the plane while we were flying it,” Keiper said of the campus’ early problems.

Eyes on from the city

Aurora Councilwoman Alli Jackson, chair of the city’s Housing, Neighborhood Services and Redevelopment Committee, would like to see a little less flying blind when it comes to the navigation center.

“We’ve got to have measurable goals to be able to say we’re doing what we say we’re doing,” Jackson said. “In six months, we’re going to check back in and see if these goals have been met.”

Last week, the City Council on the goings-on at the navigation campus. Specifically, the measure aims to “establish performance metrics, accountability standards and reporting expectations” at the campus.

There are also several requirements included in the measure: a minimum number of medical respite beds — 15 to 20 by next summer — for homeless adults. Staff at the navigation campus will be required to complete training in conflict resolution, crisis prevention and de-escalation and trauma-informed care.

City leaders stated they would like to see case management ratios at the facility consistently upheld, with a target of one manager for 30 residents on the emergency side of the operation and one manager per 15 residents on the transitional housing side.

The resolution also asks the Aurora Regional Navigation Campus to provide the city on a quarterly basis with the number and percentage of clients engaged in case management, navigation services and employment services.

That’s an area that has gotten Jackson’s attention. Service providers, be it in the areas of mental health, workforce opportunities or criminal justice case management, haven’t been able to operate at an optimal level at the campus.

“They don’t know what room they’re supposed to be in and who they are supposed to be seeing,” she said. “It’s disorganized.”

Goebelbecker said 210 residents engaged with case managers from April through June. Overall, the navigation campus has agreements with 30 service providers, and four of them hold regular hours on campus, including the HEART (Housing, Employment, Addiction, Recovery and Teamwork) Court and .

Stride’s presence at the building has been critical in reducing emergency calls, Goebelbecker told city officials at a Housing, Neighborhood Services and Redevelopment Committee meeting in July. He produced a bar graph that showed a striking correlation between Stride’s operating hours at the campus and a reduction in 911 call activity.

‘It’s a rough night’

Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman hopes the navigation campus can add an on-site mental health provider, perhaps an extension of Stride’s medical services.

The mayor has likely kept the closest eye on the facility amongst his colleagues since it opened nine months ago, even if his eyes are closed for the bulk of the time he spends there. Coffman has been sleeping on a Tier I cot at the facility every Friday since February.

He speaks to residents in the afternoon and then tries to get some shut-eye, even as people around him talk deep into the night. He’s lucky if he gets six hours of sleep.

“It’s a rough night,” Coffman said of the overnight experience at the campus. “If one dog starts barking, God help us.”

Then he’s up before dawn helping make breakfast for the residents.

“It’s people who are just off the street or who have just lost their housing,” Coffman said. “They know I’m there every Friday afternoon to talk to.”

Despite the hiccups of the first few months of the navigation campus’ operation, Coffman fully believes in the incentive-based model Aurora is following. It may be a little while before results are achieved, the mayor said, given the complicated addiction and mental health challenges faced by many of the residents the city is trying to help.

Coffman wants the residents he sees weekly to “achieve their highest level of self-sufficiency.”

“If you look at other programs, they are just warehousing people,” he said. “I think this program will be a model for the country.”

Officers responded to reports of an unresponsive man lying on a sidewalk near East Warren Avenue and South Galena Street shortly before 7:30 a.m. Sunday, according to a news release from the Aurora Police Department.

Investigators believe the man, an unidentified 49-year-old, had been shot hours earlier. He died before law enforcement arrived on scene, police said.

The man will be identified by the Arapahoe County Coroner’s Office.

As of Sunday afternoon, no suspects had been publicly identified or arrested in the shooting, which police are investigating as a homicide.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867.

This is a developing story and may be updated.

Re: “Aurora police need more training,” Aug. 9 editorial.

As a former police officer, police chief, and a mediator for the U.S. Department of Justice, I have found that no other event raises the public consciousness as the police use of fatal force. This awareness is exacerbated when the person against whom fatal force is applied is an African American, Hispanic or other minority person.

The Denver Post editorial calls for more training and a public reckoning. In my experience, training is only one factor. Community trust is critical and must be developed over time through an open and honest relationship with the community that is served. The editorial mentions that the department culture must be changed. This is a key factor and originates with the attitude of the chief.

If the police chief stresses conduct that respects the sanctity of human life and follows up with close administrative review, the officers will respond accordingly. If the public believes that fatal force is used indiscriminately, then that trust cannot be achieved. The department’s mission statement should clearly state and emulate the respect for safeguarding human lives, police officers included. The Aurora Police Department’s mission statement, as indicated on its website, is: “To make Aurora safer every day.”

This would be a good step forward, create a mission and values statement which emphasizes the value of every human life and echoes the police code of ethics: “As a law enforcement officer my fundamental duty is to serve mankind; to safeguard lives and property; to protect the innocent against deception, the weak against oppression or intimidation, and the peaceful against violence or disorder; and to respect the constitutional rights of all men(persons) to liberty, equality and justice.” Police training should start with and include the mission statement and the values of the department.

Philip Arreola, Denver

Ask yourself in November if it really belongs in the Constitution

Re: “Fall Ballot Chock-Full,” Aug. 9 news story.

I was disturbed to read that as many as 10 of the citizen-led initiatives headed for our November ballot are constitutional amendments. When approached to add my signature to one of these, my response has been that the state Constitution is becoming a junk drawer stuffed with issues of the moment.

Some clearly collide – a proposed amendment to shift Colorado income tax from its flat rate to a graduated rate where high earners pay more, faces off against another amendment that would cap the state’s income tax.

Then there’s the “right to hunt and fish,” purporting to be a method for managing wildlife – which, let¶¶Ňőap be honest, it is not. Letting individuals decide how many fish or game animals they can kill is the opposite of wildlife management. This free-for-all disregards impacts on wildlife from climate change, habitat loss due to human encroachment, and the big picture of herd health and land carrying capacity. This is also a “solution” in search of a problem, and as a Coloradan, I already have a right to hunt and fish.

A right to use natural gas for cooking and heating? Does this really belong in the Constitution?

When you get your ballot, review these citizen referenda carefully and if they involve amending our Constitution, vote No.

Nancy B. Weil, Denver

Hunters can’t manage wildlife populations alone

I fully support the spirit of the Colorado Right to Hunt and Fish Initiative, but I take issue with proposing harvest regulations as the preferred population management method. Hunting is one tool in the wildlife manager’s kit and is not nearly as effective as might be expected.

As an ecologist who has primarily studied white-tailed deer, I have seen legitimate challenges to the assumption that hunting controls deer populations. There are simply too many other factors involved for hunting to play a primary role in population regulation. Even intense, targeted hunting has a very limited impact.

It is fruitless and possibly counterproductive to assign first-line responsibility to an activity that demonstrably cannot achieve desired results. But the wording of this amendment would prioritize hunting and fishing regulations as the preeminent tool for population management. This is a mistake.

If populations are low due to poor habitat quality, would hunters want the state to be forced to first try lowering bag limits and shortening seasons to reduce harvest and let more deer live to the next season? Of course not. Any sensible person would prefer to see effective habitat management begin immediately as the first step in recovery. Overabundant populations may be reduced somewhat by increased harvest, but even those results are typically small and transitory.

Let our wildlife professionals be free to choose their most effective strategies to provide sound, effective wildlife management benefiting the wildlife resource and the public (including hunters and fishermen!) seeking to enjoy it.

Phillip D. Jones, Grand Junction

Don’t make immigrants fear police

Don’t be fooled by Initiative 95, which is on the ballot in November. Initiative 95 will not make Colorado safer. This amendment would alter our constitution to require local law enforcement to collect and share information with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security concerning any immigrant who is arrested for a felony or violent crime.

Immigrants in our communities are less likely to report a crime if they live in fear of local law enforcement. Immigrants historically have similar or lower crime rates as citizens. In fact, studies indicate that communities with high rates of immigrants are safer. Also, any person in America is innocent until proven guilty.

Of note, the League of Women Voters is against this initiative. They state, “a person charged with a violent crime is not necessarily guilty.” They also note that racial profiling could be used to locate immigrants charged with a crime.

Do not be taken in by the fear-mongering language of Initiative 95. What makes us safe and what makes us better is our humanity, our understanding that immigrants are people and that all of us are created equal.

 Bill J Fyfe, Denver

Did voters know what they were signing?

Re: “Colorado voters are being tricked into signing billionaire-backed petitions,” August 2 commentary.

When I saw petitioners outside our local King Soopers, I assumed they were collecting signatures for a good cause — why else would the store allow it?

Friends later told me the petition was for “voter ID.” Next time, I told the circulator that Colorado already requires some form of identification for in-person voting and verifies every mail ballot by signature. There is no documented fraud to justify changing the law.

He replied: “Tell that to Georgia.” That struck a nerve. Georgia’s 2020 fraud claims were investigated and repeatedly disproven, so hearing this from him felt like a tell about this petition’s purpose.

So I wondered who funded this ballot measure. The answer: Advance Colorado, a 501(c)(4) “dark money” nonprofit that doesn’t disclose its donors. The circulator is paid, not a volunteer. At their table, you could also find #95 (immigration reporting), #232 (locks in the current flat tax, blocking a graduated system), and #251/252/256 (blocking Colorado’s redistricting response). Voters needed to know what they were signing!

King Soopers isn’t endorsing anything — the sidewalk outside is a public forum. But voters deserve to know who’s funding what before they sign.

I support secure elections. I also support knowing who’s asking for my signature, and why.

Lorraine O’Hara, Thornton

Decades-old trope from Marx supporter was antisemitism

Re: “Victor Marx and Melat Kiros are horrible candidates but probably not antisemitic,” Aug. 9 opinion.

Sean Pond, Republican Montrose County commissioner, posted an antisemitic poster of Democratic Governor candidate Phil Weiser wearing the horns of a devil, and Krista Kafer passes it off as an “artless effort” by a Victor Marx supporter. She further instructs us that there’s “no point getting exercised by it.”

These comments come after reporter Kyle Clark had pointed out that it is a well-documented, centuries-old, ugly, antisemitic trope that’s been used to demonize Jews around the world, thus justifying violence against them, and Kafer still contends it was harmless?

Pond claimed he didn’t know that Weiser was Jewish. Does that imply he wouldn’t have done it had he known? Therefore, he knew the demeaning and dangerous nature of that image; we can’t know for certain.

But what I do know is we owe it to each other, to society, to any group that’s been marginalized or threatened, to educate ourselves and call out hate whenever we see it and demand that any image of it be taken down. When we know better, we must do better. That goes double for anyone who has a public forum.

Lynne Popkowski, Littleton

America’s tax system perpetuates inequality

Income inequality and affordability are real-life issues for at least half the country. Yet our income tax system rewards the wealthy and high earners, including large corporations, with generous loopholes and write-offs. This is the opposite of what is needed. Flip it upside down and give income tax write-offs to the lower half of earners (or thereabouts) for health insurance, childcare, rent or mortgage interest. Eliminate loopholes, gimmicks and write-offs for (as an example) those whose annual gross is $400k as individuals, $600k as a couple. Eliminate the same for large corporations and give the break to small businesses.

You would see the economy rapidly take off and the social safety net enhanced without creating another bureaucracy or agency to do oversight. No need to raise income tax rates either.

John W. Thomas, Fort Collins

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Officer Michael Gallagher was investigated for several policy violations, including substance abuse, tampering with evidence and knowingly making false statements during an investigation or while testifying under oath, according to a .

The investigation revealed that Gallagher had taken narcotics collected as evidence during a traffic stop while on duty and later ingested them while driving home from his shift, causing him to become incapacitated in his vehicle on a highway in Commerce City, police said in the release.

Gallagher was immediately removed from duty and placed on administrative leave when the allegations were first reported, Aurora Police Chief Todd Chamberlain said in a statement.

“That investigation recently concluded, serious policy violations were sustained, and his employment with the Aurora Police Department has ended,” Chamberlain said.

The case has also been referred to the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office for the potential filing of criminal charges, according to the department.

“Every member of this organization takes an oath to serve and protect this community with professionalism, compassion and integrity,” Chamberlain said. “What occurred here violated that oath, our policies, and the trust placed in us by the public.”

Gallagher was reported to the Colorado Attorney General’s Office’s Peace Officer Standards and Training unit on Aug. 5, . As of Thursday morning, Gallagher was still certified in the database.

This is a developing story and may be updated.

Aurora police officers found the man in the westbound lanes of East 16th Avenue at around 2:24 a.m. after he appeared to have been struck by a vehicle. The man died at the scene.

The suspect vehicle involved fled the scene, according to the Aurora Police Department.

The man’s identity will be confirmed by the Adams County Coroner’s Office.

Police said no additional information is available at this time. Anyone with any information about this crash is asked to contact the Aurora Police Department through or call 720-913-STOP (7867).

This is a developing story and may be updated.