Jacob Anglon, 29, is suspected of shooting two men in the 1100 block of North Columbine Street. One of the gunshot victims later died. He was arrested Wednesday and is being investigated for first-degree murder and attempted murder.

The Denver District Attorney’s Office will decide what charges to file. The Denver Office of the Medical Examiner will identify the victim.

, at 9755 E. Hampden Ave., has seen three violent events on its property in the last five months, including an earlier homicide just outside the club in March, city officials wrote in an order that immediately suspended the nightclub’s liquor and entertainment licenses.

The club is required to “cease operations and close immediately,” according to the order, issued by the on Wednesday.

In addition to the past violence, the nightclub was also serving food and providing hookah without the proper licenses, and the man who holds the liquor and entertainment licenses for the facility is not the man who now purports to be the owner of Ultra Lounge East, Molly Duplechian, manager of the licensing department, wrote in the order.

She alleged that the original owner of the building, Dol Bhattarai, sold or subleased the property to Dionte Wilkins, but did not transfer various licenses to Wilkins that would allow the club to operate legally.

“The department has received information indicating that Mr. Wilkins may not be eligible for a liquor license due to his criminal history, and that he has intentionally and deliberately tried to circumvent the licensing process and mislead the department by characterizing himself as a manager and not an owner,” the order reads.

It was not immediately clear what criminal history the order referred to.

Dionte Wilkins said in a text message Wednesday that he “definitely did nothing purposely,” and otherwise declined to comment.

Bhattarai told The Denver Post on Wednesday that he owns the building — where for a decade he ran the Yak and Yeti restaurant — and leased it to Wilkins about a year ago. He said Wilkins told him that he was working to transfer the liquor and entertainment licenses.

“We were trying to switch the liquor license to his name, but it was taking a long time,” Bhattarai said. “It should have been changed by now. I don’t know what happened. I am surprised.”

Bhattarai said he leased the building to Wilkins so he could slow down after 24 years in the restaurant business. Wilkins hadn’t paid rent for four months, Bhattarai said, and this week he moved to evict Wilkins from the building.

“He was telling me he would do it next month — ‘I’ll help you, I’ll bring money, my mom is going to give me money,’ he was telling me different stories,” Bhattarai said. “So that is what is taking time, otherwise I’d kick him out two months ago. I gave him a chance because I didn’t want to kick someone out right away.”

Bhattarai said did not have any warning signs about Wilkins before giving him the lease, and he believed the man was qualified to operate the nightclub.

“I trusted him, I gave him the lease, but I feel bad about it, and I feel for the community who got damaged,” he said. (It’s) something I never expected.”

Police believe at least two shooters opened fire at Ultra Lounge East at 12:10 a.m. Monday. The two groups confronted each other earlier in the day Sunday at an event billed as a community water fight in Aurora. Police were called to several fights at that event around 7 p.m. Sunday.

That conflict reignited at the nightclub later that night when the club hosted an afterparty for the water fight. Elijah Bernard, 25, was killed in the shooting, according to the city’s Office of the Medical Examiner.

Five men and three women were wounded, Denver police spokesman Jay Casillas said. The victims who were shot but survived included a 43-year-old man, two 22-year-old men, a 24-year-old man and a 24-year-old woman, a 37-year-old man, a 32-year-old woman and a 30-year-old woman, according to police.

Police recovered 66 shell casings at the scene from .45 caliber and 9 mm guns, according to the order, which also stated that at least one witness told police that security was lax at the venue that night and no one checked for weapons as patrons entered the club.

The order cites two instances of prior violence at Ultra Lounge East, which sits in the middle of a 1.5-mile stretch of Hampden Avenue that has seen a jump in violence so far this year. The city has seen at least five homicides and 11 nonfatal shootings along that stretch of road in the last seven months, police data shows.

In March, 47-year-old Neal Jones was beaten to death outside Ultra Lounge East. And on April 11, unlicensed security guards at the club removed a patron who was drunk and claimed to have a firearm. The security guards punched the patron in the face multiple times until he was unconscious and used pepper spray on the customer, according to the order. It was not immediately clear whether the guards were charged with a crime.

The summary suspension, which effectively shuts down the lounge, will take effect immediately, but Wilkins will have an opportunity to challenge the suspension in a hearing set for Sept. 11. A city hearing officer will listen to testimony and evidence and then issue a recommendation to Duplechian, who will issue the final decision in the case.

Summary suspensions are traditionally rare in Denver, but this action is the third time this year the city has issued summary suspensions. The city also took such action against Nativ Hotel & Gatsby Social in April, and against Vibe Smoke Shop in May.

Officers arrested Fernando Sebastian Chavez on Monday night after identifying him as a suspect in the July 13 shooting in the 3800 block of West Arizona Avenue, department leaders said in a news release.

Police responded to a 911 call about the shooting at 9:11 p.m. and found a man, James Ruiz, who had been shot. Ruiz died at the scene.

Investigators found that Ruiz was trying to break up a fight between his girlfriend and another woman when Chavez shot him and fled the scene, Denver police said.

Chavez is being held without bail at the Downtown Detention Center, according to jail records. He appeared in Denver County Court on Tuesday morning, but his next court date was not immediately available.

The shooting outside the Ultra Lounge East nightclub just after midnight sent patrons running for cover, with some hiding in a closet and under cars to escape the bullets. The nightclub at 9755 E. Hampden Ave. sits along a roughly 1.5-mile stretch of road in Denver that has seen at least five homicides and 11 people shot during the last seven months, according to police data.

The gunfire at Ultra Lounge East appeared to involve at least two shooters and followed a confrontation between two groups at an event billed as a community water fight in Aurora earlier on Sunday, Denver police said. That earlier dispute reignited at an afterparty hosted at the lounge, Chief Ron Thomas said .

Denver officers were already responding to a call for a disturbance in the lounge’s parking lot when shots were fired on the nightclub’s outdoor patio and in the parking lot, Thomas said. The shooting happened shortly before 12:10 a.m. Monday.

When officers arrived, they found a man who had been shot in the parking lot, Thomas said. Paramedics took the victim to a hospital, where he died, he said. The man will be publicly identified by the Denver Office of the Medical Examiner.

Eight other people were shot with “varying degrees of seriousness,” Thomas said. Some took themselves to the hospital and others were taken by paramedics. As of Monday morning, all eight were in “serious but stable” condition, Thomas said.

No weapons were recovered at the scene, but investigators believe at least two guns were fired during the incident, Thomas said.

It’s unknown whether all of the people injured were with the two groups who first confronted each other at the Aurora event, or if some were bystanders, Thomas said. He did not describe the Aurora event, but said the gathering at the lounge was an afterparty for the event.

Ultra Lounge East advertised an afterparty on its social media pages for an event known as “Water Warz 26,” which was held at Del Mar Park in Aurora on Sunday afternoon and evening and was advertised as a community water fight with games, food and giveaways, as well as a birthday party for a local DJ.

Aurora police responded to a call about a “fight with weapons” at Del Mar Park just after 7 p.m. Sunday, Aurora police spokeswoman Gabby Easterwood said. Responding officers found a “very large crowd present for some kind of event,” she said, adding that “numerous fights broke out” while officers were present.

Aurora police issued three summonses and made one arrest, she said. Additional information on the people cited and arrested was not immediately available.

Ultra Lounge East was unusually crowded for a Sunday evening, Thomas said.

“I think one of the challenges that we face in our city, all over our city, is that there are far too many people that have access to guns and just don’t have the appropriate conflict resolution skills,” Thomas said during the briefing.

Investigators were working to identify suspects in the shooting based on witness descriptions, Thomas said during the Monday morning briefing.

The sprawling crime scene was still taped off late Monday morning as a detective talked to witnesses who were waiting to retrieve their cars from the closed-off parking lot. Trash littered the ground.

Witnesses recounted taking cover when the gunshots rang out. One man hid under a car. A woman huddled in a closet.

John Hawkins, who lives at a nearby apartment complex, said he heard what he thought were fireworks and stepped outside to investigate.

“I came outside and I was like, that doesn’t sound like fireworks,” he said. “People were running in all directions.”

The nightclub is not routinely a problem spot, Hawkins said. He and his neighbors sometimes hear loud cars and street racing in the area, but rarely hear music from the lounge. But he noted that his neighbors have found bullet casings on the apartment complex property. He’s thinking about moving, but not because of the recent violence.

“Stuff can happen anywhere,” he said.

The nightclub sits on the edge of Denver’s Hampden and Kennedy neighborhoods, along a stretch of East Hampden Avenue that has become a hotspot for violence this year.

In January, a 16-year-old boy and 26-year-old man were killed when a party celebrating the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro devolved into gunfire.

In March, a domestic violence double shooting inside an apartment in the 8400 block of East Hampden Avenue killed 59-year-old Patricia Daniel and wounded a 37-year-old woman. And in a separate incident that month, 47-year-old Neal Jones was beaten to death outside Ultra Lounge East.

Dionte Wilkins, who is listed as the registered agent for the lounge, did not return a request for comment Monday. On Facebook, that he was hurt, devastated and disappointed by the shooting.

“I’m not speaking as only a Black business owner, but also as a victim of a horrific tragedy, enjoying life and celebration with a community I truly love,” he wrote. “Me and the other survivors are more than fortunate to still have our lives today. We all could have lost our lives because a random act of violence. Innocent people were hurt, and a life was lost in the blink of an eye. The senseless violence in our community has got to stop.”

Thomas told The Denver Post last week that police believe both late-night entertainment establishments and a large apartment complex that serves low-income residents have contributed to the spate of violence this year, which he said have been unconnected incidents.

Police have increased patrols in the area in an attempt to head off the violence.

In 2025, the city saw two homicides in the East Hampden corridor and one non-fatal shooting during the entire year, police records show. In 2024, the corridor experienced a single non-fatal shooting.

The uptick in youth violence comes amid a jump in homicides across the city, with 26 homicides in the first six months of 2026 compared to 18 at this point in 2025, when the city saw the third-lowest number of annual homicides on record since 1990.

Still, both youth violence and overall homicides remain well below levels the city experienced when crime spiked during and immediately after the COVID-19 pandemic, and police data shows other categories of reported crime — including property crime, auto theft and burglary — are down when compared to this point in 2025.

“Every crime category is down with the exception of homicides, which is drastically up when compared to last year but down compared to the three-year average,” Chief Ron Thomas said. “Obviously, we are concerned about that. …One thing we are noticing is the age of suspects and victims being younger in many instances.”

Six children were killed in Denver during the first half of the year and 11 more were wounded in shootings. In 2025, no children had been killed by July 1 and just two were wounded in shootings, according to police data obtained by The Denver Post through open records requests.

In 2022, by contrast, there had been almost twice as many homicides by the midpoint of the year, with 50 people killed in Denver by July 1, including 14 children. Another 23 children were wounded in shootings, according to police data.

Two of the children killed this year are suspected victims of child abuse, including 2-month-old Adhara Gomez-Bastardo, who died May 25 in the 1600 block of South Albion Street. Her death is being investigated as a homicide due to traumatic injuries, but no one has yet been charged, and officials are still determining the cause of death, Major Crimes Division Cmdr. Matt Clark said.

Also slain was 2-year-old Valkyrie Erickson, who died Jan. 17. Her mother and her mother’s boyfriend have been charged in connection with her death. The other youth killed this year were teenagers ranging from 14 to 17 years old, including a 14-year-old boy shot to death inside the Montbello Recreation Center.

Overall, the city saw 59 non-fatal shootings with 68 victims through June, compared to 60 shootings with 69 victims in the first six months of 2025, police data shows.

Thomas said personal disputes continue to drive violence in Denver, with a “little bit of a gang nexus” within the youth violence, though he noted that the gangs police are seeing now tend to be cliques that are more organized around friendships than traditional gang allegiances or geographic territory.

“It is not like they are involved in defending territory or dealing drugs,” Thomas said. “A lot of these conflicts just emanate over battles back and forth online, sometimes over significant others, and then because of the online dispute, they choose to meet somewhere and shoot at each other. It begins as something less than a shooting but ultimately evolves to a shooting.”

He urged parents to ensure their children do not carry guns and said the police department will continue to work with community partners to head off such youth violence.

Jonathan McMillan, the former head of Denver’s , said the increase in young victims is, so far, a “minor spike.”

“It’s definitely concerning, but we are nowhere near where we were pre-COVID and immediately after COVID,” he said. “I don’t think there is a need for widespread alarm, but I do believe we could get ahead of this now if the city is willing to invest in the violence prevention strategies implemented back in 2020.”

The city focused heavily on youth violence prevention when killings spiked several years ago, but the effort has seen budget cuts and disorganization under Mayor Mike Johnston, McMillan said.

“Under the new administration, there has been a lack of buy-in, and if I’m being frank, a bit of disorganization around the comprehensive strategy that I truly believe contributed — maybe was not the sole reason, but contributed — to the historic decline in homicides and violence last year,” McMillan said. “We are looking at the lag effect of policies and programs and funding that went into youth violence and gun violence prevention in 2020 and 2021.”

Thomas pushed back on that stance, calling it “a little bit of a mischaracterization” and defending the city’s ongoing prevention efforts.

“From a city perspective, the focus remains,” he said. “I think one challenge is that funding is less and less available, both in the city, state and certainly at the federal level.”

In addition to the uptick in young victims, Denver also saw a spate of violence along a stretch of East Hampden Avenue on the far southeast side of the city near the Cherry Creek Reservoir.

The violence along the corridor was a series of unrelated incidents, Clark said.

Four people were killed and another three shot along an about 1.5-mile stretch of the road in four incidents so far this year, including a January quadruple shooting in which a 16-year-old boy and a 26-year-old man were killed when a party celebrating the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro devolved into gunfire.

A double shooting in March in the 8400 block of East Hamden Avenue that killed 59-year-old Patricia Daniel and wounded a 37-year-old woman was an act of family violence inside an apartment, Clark said. And in a separate incident, 47-year-old Neal Jones was beaten to death outside a nightclub in the 9700 block of East Hampden Avenue.

“There are some entertainment establishments in that area that attract crowds and that have late-night hours where they let out, and there is also a very large apartment complex over there that is sort of a low-income, underserved community that lives in that area,” Thomas said of the corridor.

The police department has increased its patrols in the dense neighborhood and routinely conducts outreach to residents in the large apartment complex, Thomas said.

The fatal shooting happened in the 1100 block of Columbine Street in Denver, according to a . Paramedics took two people to the hospital, where one man later died from his injuries, police said.

The man killed in the shooting will be identified by the Denver Office of the Medical Examiner. His death is under investigation as a homicide, police said.

Denver officers responded to the second shooting in the 8000 block of East 12th Avenue early Sunday morning, . Paramedics took two unidentified people to the hospital with unknown injuries, police said.

Information about the events leading up to both shootings and whether suspects had been identified was not immediately available on Sunday.

Anyone with information on the shootings is asked to call Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867.

This is a developing story and may be updated. 

Police responded to the shooting near East 45th Avenue and North Sherman Street and found one victim, officials said at on social media just before 1 a.m.

The victim was pronounced dead at a hospital, and police have not arrested a suspect, according to the department.

This was the second fatal shooting in Denver in less than 12 hours. A man was killed in a shooting in Green Valley Ranch about 5 p.m. Friday, police officials said.

Anyone with information about the case can contact Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867.

Officers responded to the shooting near East 48th Place and Argonne Street on Friday evening, Denver police said on social media just after 5 p.m. Friday.

The victim, a man, was pronounced dead at the hospital. Police have not arrested any suspects in the case and the investigation is ongoing, officials said.

Anyone with information about the case can contact Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867.

This is a developing story.

Officers responded to 911 calls about a fight in the 2100 block of East Colfax Avenue at 4:22 p.m. Tuesday, including one caller who told dispatchers a man wearing underwear got into their car and tried to carjack them.

Someone in the car started fighting with the man to try to get him out of the car, hitting him on the head and upper body before pulling him out of the vehicle. More people called 911 after the man walked away, entered a business and caused a “disturbance,” police officials said.

Officers who first came across the man inside the business said he “appeared to be breathing heavily and began yelling.” The officers handcuffed and subdued the man as he struggled, and later asked emergency medical crews to respond.

The man did not have visible injuries, and officers did not use Tasers or pepper spray during the arrest, Denver police said.

Emergency crews took him to a hospital, and he later was pronounced dead.

The State Patrol, Colorado Bureau of Investigation and DPD’s major crimes division are investigating the case with oversight from the

The Denver medical examiner’s office will release the man’s name and cause of death.

The boys, whom The Denver Post is not identifying because they are children, each face numerous charges, including first-degree murder.  Investigators believe the boys killed Christopher Nabors on June 30 in the 4300 block of North Pecos Street when the man confronted them as they attempted to either break into or steal his vehicle, according to the Denver Police Department.

The two boys might also be connected to a second, similar homicide that happened in the 15000 block of East Olmstead Drive on June 24, police said. In that incident, 19-year-old Jacob Lopez was slain when he confronted would-be car thieves. Neither boy has been charged or arrested in connection with that homicide, and police said the investigation was ongoing.

The two killings prompted Denver police to warn residents not to confront car thieves. They urged residents to instead call police.

About 15 minutes before killing Nabors, police believe the 14-year-old boy and two other juveniles were involved in a shooting near Park Avenue and East 20th Avenue in which a 15-year-old boy was wounded. The teenager survived, police records show. Investigators believe that shooting to be gang-related, according to records obtained by The Post.

All three of the juveniles, including the 14-year-old boy, have been charged or arrested in connection with that shooting.

Trying the boys as adults would move their cases from to Denver District Court, where they would face decades-longer prison sentences than if they were convicted as juveniles. There would also be more public access to court records and transparency about what occurred in the killing.

Under Colorado law, children as young as 12 can be tried as adults. To do so for children younger than 16, prosecutors and defense attorneys present evidence about the crime and the child defendant during a transfer hearing in juvenile court. A juvenile court judge then considers the factors presented — including the seriousness of the crime and the child’s past criminal history — to decide whether the case should move to adult court.

Prosecutors can file charges directly into adult court for children who are 16 or older.

Including Nabors and Lopez, at least six people — including two children — have been killed during confrontations over car thefts in the metro area during the last six years.

A 54-year-old man in Denver was slain when he followed his stolen vehicle in northeast Denver in 2021.

A man in Aurora killed a 14-year-old boy and wounded a 13-year-old boy in 2023 after he chased them down because he believed they were attempting to steal his wife’s car. He was convicted of murder in 2025.

Also in 2023, a 35-year-old man tracked his stolen car in Denver, then shot and killed 12-year-old Elias Armstrong, who was in the driver’s seat of the vehicle. That man was not charged with a crime.

A man in Aurora was killed when he chased two people stealing scooters outside their home and the suspects opened fire on them in 2023.