Federal investigators published a this week detailing what little is known – that five 17-year-old boys were driving in a 2003 Cadillac CTS southeast on Lookout Lane just before midnight on Aug. 8 when the driver “failed to negotiate a leftward curve in the road.”

The road is along the edge of a cliffside overlooking the Gunnison River, and the vehicle went off the road, rolled, went down a steep embankment and over the cliff, crashing into the rocks below, federal officials said.

All five boys, who the Mesa County Coroner’s Office identified as Tristan Tucker, William Simms, Tyler Kersey-Huffman, Titus Gould and Braden Taylor, were killed in the crash.

NTSB’s initial report described the roadway – two lanes, multiple curves and dry at the time of the crash – and included photos from the scene, including a photo showing tire tracks where the Cadillac left the road, drove over the sidewalk and a lawn before it went over the cliff.

“All aspects of the crash remain under investigation while the NTSB determines the probable cause, with the intent of issuing safety recommendations to prevent similar crashes,” federal officials wrote.

Federal investigators typically publish final crash reports, including probable cause and contributing factors, between 12 and 24 months after a crash.

The teen’s post, brought to the attention of the Grand Junction Police Department on Friday, implied someone dressed as the “Cat in the Hat” would appear at a local middle school and random homes, . The Grand Junction High School student’s post was not shared publicly by police.

“The posts are intended to cause alarm and fear in individuals,” police said of the viral trend.

Police determined there was “no credible threat,” but on Monday arrested the 14-year-old who posted the meme on suspicion of interference with staff, faculty or students of educational institutions, according to the release.

A quick scroll through TikTok showed numerous videos of people dressed as the tall, black-and-white cat standing outside of windows and in driveways, or walking down empty streets. Many of the images and videos appear to be AI-generated.

The trend appears reminiscent of 2016’s “killer clown” trend, where people dressed as clowns in public spaces to scare bystanders and ominous social media posts warned of the bloodthirsty clowns coming to attack towns or schools. Jeffco Public Schools and Adams 12 Five Star Schools both received similar threats at the time.

in Greeley after posting claims that killer clowns would carry out shootings on Halloween night in 2016. Prosecutors at that time said anyone involved in the trend could be charged with the same charge the Grand Junction teenager faces.

Jeffco Public Schools officials on Monday said district officials are aware of the trend but have not heard any reports of concerns at Jeffco schools. Denver Public Schools spokesperson Scott Pribble said he was not aware of any reports of the trend in the district.

Thomas Earl Steffens, 72, of Grand Junction, was wanted for in Grand Junction in January. Members of a U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force tracked him to Vero Beach, Florida, about 80 miles north of Palm Beach. He had reportedly said he would not be taken into custody alive.

The task force found Steffens riding in a passenger vehicle and pulled it over. He allegedly refused to exit the vehicle and began shooting at the deputy marshals, hitting one in the chest and leg, according to announcing the indictment.

The deputies shot Steffens multiple times. He was taken into custody and to the hospital.

He now faces five counts of attempted murder of a federal officer, five counts of aggravated assault of a federal officer, and one count of discharging a firearm during a crime of violence. The charges carry a maximum sentence of life in federal prison, according to a news release announcing the indictment. He also still faces the sexual assault charges.

The FBI is investigating the incident with help from the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office in Florida.

As far as post-apocalyptic Colorado screen stories go, “The Dog Stars” is better than most. And there are a lot of them out there, from the recent “Elevation” and “Moonfall” to series such as “The Last of Us” and “Paradise.”

Few are actually filmed in Colorado, though. Director Ridley Scott (“Blade Runner,” “Gladiator”) shot his adaptation of the Colorado-set “The Dog Stars” in the Italian Alps. The choice is symbolic of the movie at large, which never really gets under its characters’ skin but looks pretty with its sweeping vistas and flashy gunfights.

This would-be thriller, which opens in IMAX and standard theaters on Friday, Aug. 28, is based on Colorado author Peter Heller’s 2012 debut novel. Unlike the book, which was much more than its plot, the movie dutifully checks the boxes of its genre while waffling between bloody clashes and quiet vignettes among the good guys (though they’re all lumped together as “cockroaches,” given their shared immunity to a world-ending virus).

Jacob Elordi is a smoldering scarecrow of a man in his Carhartts and heavy brow as he plays mechanic-turned-pilot Hig. He flies around in a junky prop-plane from his home-base airstrip in Erie, which he shares with anxious ex-military man Bangley (Josh Brolin). Hig occasionally drops into Denver for fuel, food and medicine, where puzzling and supercharged product placement and generic buildings de-fang the feel of a ruined city. Scott can’t be bothered to represent a single Colorado landmark.

Hig, with an automatic rifle always at his side, gathers supplies with his beloved dog Jasper, who rides around with him on a golf cart and represents Hig’s connection to a world that made sense. These moments of quiet exploration and tension, which establish Hig’s essential goodness but are occasionally hokey, are soon replaced by his wanderlust of wanting to see what else is out there — ideally, other survivors in a functional mini-society.

After Jasper dies in a chaotic raid on the airstrip, and Hig is again intrigued by a scratchy radio transmission, he decides there’s nothing left for him in Erie. Suddenly, it’s a road movie without a road. Hig’s excursion leaves him stranded in a high country field, minus a runway to take off again. And yet home is always a theme: back at the airstrip, Bangley defends his compound against tattooed, bald, all-male raiders, who are cultishly devoid of humanity (all the better to mow down with rifles, sans audience-guilt, eh?).

By contrast, Hig has begun helping the father-daughter duo Cima (Marget Qualley) and Pops (Guy Pearce). Although he’s generally cast in the vein of classic Western go-alones (he’d be great in a “High Noon” remake), Hig has done little up to this point beyond thousand-year stares, burying his head in his hands and sighing loudly, and flashing back to his late, pregnant wife. The character barely comes alive with his impromptu new family.

Sparkle-eyed, apple-cheeked Qualley and her character’s instant attraction to Hig provide one of the film’s true emotional stakes. And you can’t take your eyes off Pearce, with his white neckbeard and mountain-codger wincing, but the performance is still more mannerism than character study, a plot device in search of a soul.

Each character has lost something dear and brokered a fragile truce with their trauma. But as Cima puts it in a rare moment of insight, no one has a monopoly on grief. You may be the main character in your own story, but it’s everyone’s story now.

Over its draggy, two-hour runtime, the movie stays unconcerned with the tick-tock of how the deadly pandemic destroyed civilization or still threatens some survivors, who take meaningless precautions to stand a few feet apart but never mask up. Rather, it tries to bring us inside the heads of its protagonists, who exude wounded defensiveness before predictably dropping their guards.

There’s pointed commentary — or at least the smack of poignancy — in mentions of measles and vaccines, for example, among children at an otherwise idyllic Mennonite camp to which Hig flies in Sprite and medical supplies. They’re watched over by Aaron (Benedict Wong) who, like his co-stars, is more window dressing than performance and is badly miscast.

A wild, third-act tonal shift and over-the-top Allison Janney performance makes you wonder if Scott wanted to take another route for this sober story, steering from bleakness to surreal satire. But the only reliable show-stealer, beyond the natural beauty we see from Hig’s pilot-perspective, is Brolin’s Bangley. His emotional arc stands out in this otherwise rote-feeling script from Mark L. Smith, a writer who typically knows his way around people-against-nature stories (see “Twisters” and “The Revenant”).

You also needn’t be an expert in Rocky Mountain scenery to see the utter lack of resemblance to Colorado, with the film’s foggy expanses of wide, flat rivers and pillar-like peaks. They double for locations such as Erie, Denver and Grand Junction, but scream “Europe!” from the get-go.

For all its technical confidence and pleasant faces, “The Dog Stars” squanders its actors’ talents and trades true insight for familiar action. There’s little to chew on after the camera pans up to the stars and the screen fades to black — other than why this collection of talent couldn’t produce a film worthy of Heller’s novel.

The encounter started at 12:08 a.m. when deputies responded to a 911 call about a vandalism in progress at a Maverik gas station off of Interstate 70 between Grand Junction and Palisade.

The caller said a man damaged their vehicle, and deputies found a man who matched witness descriptions when they arrived.

Deputies tried to detain him and “he became physically uncooperative” and “became unresponsive” after he was detained, police said in a news release.

Deputies started providing medical aid and the man was taken to the hospital. Additional information about his condition was not available.

The Critical Incident Response Team is investigating the case, and the sheriff’s office will conduct a separate internal investigation.

The deputies involved will be placed on administrative leave, according to Grand Junction police.

Tristan Tucker, William Simms, Tyler Kersey-Huffman, Titus Gould and Braden Taylor all died in the crash on Lookout Lane, .

Grand Junction police officers and firefighters responded to the crash near 2694 Lookout Lane at about 7:45 a.m. Sunday. the crash happened late Saturday night.

Two of the teenagers were not wearing seatbelts and were thrown from the car during the crash, according to the coroner’s office. The other three, including the driver and front-seat passenger, were wearing seatbelts, coroner officials said.

Investigators believe the boys were driving south on Lookout Lane when the car veered off the roadway. Limited information about the crash was available, but police said speed was being investigated as a factor.

This is a developing story and may be updated.

Grand Junction police officers and firefighters responded to the crash near 2694 Lookout Lane at about 7:45 a.m. Sunday, . When they arrived, law enforcement found a vehicle crashed on the hillside, police said.

The teens, all Grand Junction residents, were all pronounced dead at the scene, the coroner’s office said. They died from injuries sustained in the crash.

Three teens were wearing their seatbelts, including the driver and front seat passenger. The other two were not wearing seatbelts and were ejected in the crash, the coroner’s office said.

Investigators believe the car was headed southbound on Lookout Lane when it veered off the roadway and down the steep hillside, police said.

Speed is being investigated as a factor in the crash, police said.

Family and friends of the teenagers on GoFundMe identified three of the boys killed in the crash as , and . The other two have not yet been publicly identified.

The Mesa County Coroner did not immediately respond to questions on Tuesday.

This is a developing story and may be updated.

Flags will be flown at half staff from sunrise to sunset, Polis’ office said in a statement, in honor of “the life, bravery, and sacrifice of the U.S. Wildland Fire Service Firefighter who died from injuries that occurred while responding to the Knowles Fire in Mesa County.” Matthews’ funeral procession began Friday morning in Denver and ended in Grand Junction.

Flags in Nebraska, Matthews’ home state, were also lowered to half staff.

Matthews, 43, was injured on June 27 while fighting the Knowles Fire near the Utah border. Three other firefighters — Emily Barker, Sydney Watson and Nick Hutcherson — died during the incident. A fifth member of the crew was also injured. The firefighters, part of a helicopter-deployed team, were overtaken by flames. Federal officials said this week that a helicopter had attempted to rescue the crew but was unable to because of the conditions. The crew then attempted to deploy emergency shelters to protect themselves.

“My thoughts are with Nathan’s family during this difficult time. Our firefighters and first responders put their lives on the line everyday to protect our communities, and keep people safe. Nathan’s heroism will not be forgotten and we are forever in awe of Nathan’s unwavering bravery and sacrifice,”  Polis said in a statement.