A trooper tried to pull over a blue Subaru Impreza about 7:15 a.m. near U.S. 24 and Piney Point Lane outside of Woodland Park, about 17 miles northwest of Colorado Springs, the State Patrol said.

The driver started firing at the trooper, who was hit multiple times, State Patrol chief Col. Matthew Packard said at a news conference Tuesday afternoon.

The man fled the scene, and the wounded trooper said over the radio that he had been shot. As a second trooper who was nearby drove toward the shooting, the man passed him while heading in the opposite direction and opened fire, hitting the second trooper, Packard said.

Both troopers were able to drive themselves to UCHealth Pikes Peak Regional Hospital, which is just across the highway, and walk into the emergency room, Packard said.

Trooper Clark Tinan, who sustained minor injuries, was treated and discharged, according to the State Patrol. He has been with the agency for 15 years. Trooper Skylar Hoehn, who has been with the patrol for 10 years, remained hospitalized Wednesday with serious injuries, according to the agency.

Both are expected to survive.

The shooting sparked a massive law enforcement response as the Teller County Sheriff’s Office sent out a reverse 911 call to lock down the Westwood Lakes and Woodland West neighborhoods and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation issued a Blue Alert for the vehicle and driver.

At 9:24 a.m., the family member of a resident in one of the locked-down subdivisions called 911 and said a man doing general contract work at their home matched the description of the suspected shooter, Sheriff Jason Mikesell said.

Deputies already searching the area arrived at the home within one minute, and the man opened fire on responding officers in what Mikesell described as an ambush. One deputy returned fire, hitting the man multiple times.

Law enforcement provided medical aid, but the man was pronounced dead at the hospital at noon. His name will be released after his relatives are notified.

“I will tell you this: If you shoot a Colorado state trooper, the world is coming for you. And that¶¶Òőap what happened today. And I’m grateful for that response today,” Packard said.

The Colorado Bureau of Investigation is examining why the man was pulled over for a traffic stop, 4th Judicial District Attorney Michael Allen said. The CBI is the lead investigative agency for the shooting that injured troopers and the police shooting that killed the suspect.

In a statement, Gov. Jared Polis said he was devastated to learn about the shooting.

“As both troopers receive medical care for their injuries, I and the entire state of Colorado are keeping both of them and their families in our thoughts and prayers and wishing them a speedy and full recovery,” he said.

A 911 caller reported at 4:53 a.m. that a vehicle had crashed into a pole along Colorado Boulevard between East 100th Avenue and Thornton Parkway. Officers arrived to find two people who had been shot inside the crashed vehicle.

A male passenger died at the scene, and the female driver was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries. She died several hours later, Thornton police said.

Their names will be released by the Adams County coroner’s office.

Police closed that stretch of road for nearly six hours for the investigation, reopening it as of 10:38 a.m., department officials said on social media.

Investigators are still working to determine where the shooting occurred, police spokeswoman Kylynn McTague said.

“We have multiple detectives out here right now,” she said.

During the response to the shooting, a Thornton officer left a police vehicle on RTD train tracks for the N-Line, and an RTD train hit the empty police vehicle at 6:34 a.m., according to the State Patrol, which is investigating the crash. The N-Line crosses East 100th Avenue at Colorado Boulevard.

A on Friday showed a white pickup truck branded “Police” with its bed partially crushed against an RTD train at the crossing. The truck’s police lights were activated before the crash, Trooper Sherri Mendez said in a statement.

No one was injured in the collision either on the train or at the crime scene, Mendez said.

The officer had just arrived on scene and gotten out of the vehicle to determine where they were needed when the crash happened, McTague said in a briefing Friday morning. She declined to comment further on the officer’s decision to leave the truck on the tracks and referred to the state patrol’s investigation.

Passengers on the train disembarked and were transferred to RTD buses, Mendez said in a statement. The RTD train received “minor damage,” she said.

The N-Line train was replaced by shuttle buses for about four hours, with train service resuming at 10:45 a.m., RTD said. The agency is still providing supplemental bus service, and riders may still see delays,

Thornton police officials will launch a separate administrative investigation into the crash to “determine compliance with department policy,” the department said in a news release.

In response to a request for comment on RTD’s investigation into the crash, spokesperson Tina Jaquez said the state patrol is leading the investigation and added that trains cannot stop quickly because of their weight and speed.

“It is important to remind everyone to be safe around tracks and crossings,” she said.

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.

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The Denver Police Department first reported the at 1:09 a.m. and said one person was taken to a hospital with unknown injuries.

Department officials later reported three more injured people, one of whom had a “minor” gunshot wound to the foot. The other two people drove themselves to a hospital, and additional information about their injuries was not available.

Investigators believe the incident started as an involving an unknown number of people, police said Saturday morning. Investigators detained multiple people and found four guns at the scene.

Police are investigating, and anyone with information about the shooting can contact at 720-913-7867.

Officers responded to the shooting at 11:02 p.m. Aug. 6 in the 4100 block of West Custer Place and found Maikel Garresquero Mavo with gunshot wounds in the passenger seat of a car that had crashed into a parked vehicle, according to the .

Investigators believe Mavo was lured to the location, possibly because of a prior dispute. When he and the driver arrived, police say, three people quickly approached and started shooting. The driver of the vehicle, who has not been identified, fled on foot.

Police said they identified Davidson Semeco-Acurero, 18, as a suspect in the shooting, along with a 17-year-old male and 13-year-old female. All three were arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder.

Information about Semeco-Acurero’s next court appearance was not immediately available.

Steven Cole Simpson, 25, faces charges of first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder in the road rage shooting that killed Andrew Luke Bott, 23, court records show.

Bott was a passenger in a blue Ford F-150 suspected of fleeing from a collision involving several cars in Littleton on July 25, Jefferson County sheriff’s officials said.

The driver of the pickup truck, a 20-year-old man, allegedly collided with Simpson’s white BMW X5 SUV on southbound Santa Fe Drive near Arapahoe Community College, and Simpson started following him, according to a news release from the First Judicial District Attorney’s Office.

The Ford driver told investigators that a white SUV hit his truck and that he fled after Bott saw the SUV driver holding a gun, according to Simpson’s arrest affidavit. He told investigators that he later heard shots and saw Bott slump over. He could not describe the driver of the SUV, according to the affidavit.

Simpson told police that a third vehicle was involved in the crash, according to the affidavit. He said the truck hit a sedan while trying to merge, causing the sedan to hit his SUV.

Simpson’s passenger called 911 to report the collision shortly before 10:30 p.m., as Simpson pursued the truck west on Bowles Avenue and into the Grant Ranch neighborhood, the affidavit stated. They relayed the Ford’s license plate to dispatchers, who told the pair to stop following the pickup truck.

Simpson claimed he stopped following and went straight home, according to the affidavit.

But investigators reviewing the 911 call heard Simpson say what sounded like “He’s going to die” before two noises believed to be gunshots, according to the affidavit. After the suspected gunshots, Simpson can be heard on the recording agreeing to go home, the affidavit stated.

The driver of the Ford called 911 at about 10:32 p.m., but initially hung up, according to the district attorney’s office. When dispatchers called the number back, the driver said another vehicle was chasing him and that his passenger, Bott, had been shot, the release stated.

Investigators believe Simpson fired several times at the Ford near Grant Ranch Boulevard and West Bowles Avenue, striking Bott in the head, officials with the district attorney’s office said.

Paramedics took Bott to the hospital, where he died shortly after midnight, investigators said.

Simpson’s passenger, his 26-year-old wife Corryn Simpson, was also charged with being an accessory to first-degree murder, according to Jefferson County court records.

In a search of the couple’s home, investigators found ammunition matching the casings found at the scene of the shooting, according to the affidavit. Several firearms were seized from the home and tested, but the results of that test were not immediately available on Thursday.

Both of the Simpsons are next scheduled to appear in court for a preliminary hearing on Sept. 2, court records show.

An Adams County , 38, of first-degree murder on July 24, and Adams County District Court Judge Toni Wehmen on Friday sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole, the mandatory sentence for a first-degree murder conviction in Colorado.

Witnesses first reported seeing a man grab a woman and force her into an SUV in the parking lot of a Super 8 at 12055 N. Melody Drive on June 8, 2024.

Investigators later determined that Gladney had called someone for a ride and when they arrived to pick him up, Gladney went into the building and came out with 36-year-old Valarie Garcia.

The driver told police Gladney was yelling at Garcia and forced her into the vehicle, where he continued to argue with her and threatened to shoot her. He then pulled out a gun and shot her in the chest.

Garcia was taken to Platte Valley Medical Center in Brighton and died later that night.

In a statement Friday, District Attorney Brian Mason described Garcia’s death as “a brutal and senseless killing.”

“While we cannot bring her back, I am glad we could deliver some amount justice for Valarie Garcia,” Mason said.

An attorney for Gladney could not immediately be reached for comment.

requires Coloradans looking to buy rifles and shotguns with detachable magazines or gas-operated pistols — weapons popularly conceived of as assault-style rifles — to first obtain an eligibility card from a sheriff’s office and pass a course by a verified instructor. This new requirement stacks with prior background check and waiting period requirements.

The measure passed in 2025 and was signed into law by Gov. Jared Polis, but included delayed implementation to allow time to set up rules and procedures.

In the lead-up, developed a curriculum that trainers must follow, the Department of Revenue compiled a list of some affected by the regulation, and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation cross-trained 20 of its staffers to double its capacity for conducting background checks. Hundreds of instructors across Colorado registered with the state to offer training.

Meanwhile, a lawsuit seeking to block the law on Second Amendment grounds has continued through the judicial process. Backers said they’re considering asking for a preliminary injunction to stop the law’s enforcement while the court deliberations continue.

The County Sheriffs of Colorado, an advocacy organization, said its members are committed to carrying out their role in the new rules, but also called the law an unfunded mandate that will be borne by local governments.

Backers of the new law are nonetheless celebrating the rollout as a milestone in state officials’ quest to regulate firearm access to prevent gun violence, and as a landmark for other states to follow.

“Colorado is proving that passing a strong gun safety law is only the beginning. Successful implementation is what transforms policy on paper into lives saved,” Justin Wagner, senior vice president of law and policy at Everytown for Gun Safety, said in a statement. “This law gives states across the country a roadmap for implementing innovative policies that keep communities safe while providing clarity for responsible gun purchasers, retailers and law enforcement.”

Polis defended the law as something that “protects Coloradans’ Second Amendment rights and ensures a well-trained and educated gun ownership community,” spokesman Eric Maruyama said in a statement.

“This law ensures those who purchase certain weapons receive proper education and safety training, which will certainly help make our communities safer and reduce gun violence,” Maruyama said. “Governor Polis is confident this law will make us safer while protecting Coloradans’ Second Amendment Rights.”

Sen. Tom Sullivan, a Centennial Democrat and one of the chief architects of Colorado’s modern firearm regulation, said the new law is a continuation of past efforts, such as the 15-round limit on magazines passed in 2013 after the Aurora theater massacre. Sullivan’s son died in that shooting.

“High-capacity magazines are what put the ‘mass’ into mass shootings, which is why over a decade ago Colorado Democrats passed legislation to prohibit magazines that hold over 15 rounds of ammunition,” Sullivan said in a statement. “This law further enforces that ban. It will save lives and increase safety for all Coloradans. The people of Colorado have mandated that we do something about the public health crisis that is gun violence, so that¶¶Òőap exactly what we’re doing.”

Classes, eligibility cards and increased costs

The new law does not cover all guns, but a subset of semiautomatic rifles and shotguns with detachable magazines, or gas-operated semiautomatic pistols. Bolt-action hunting rifles, revolvers and recoil-operated semiautomatic handguns, like common Glock models, are not covered.

Buyers of firearms covered by the law need to pass a background check and apply for an eligibility card through a sheriff’s office. Applicants can go through any sheriff’s office, though several charge higher fees for non-county residents.

Once the person’s eligibility is established, they will need to take and pass an in-person class on general gun safety to take possession of the gun.

The primary class takes 12 hours, across at least two days, and covers things like basic handling of firearms, child safety and safe storage of firearms, firearm deaths associated with mental illness, extreme risk protection awareness, and victim awareness and empathy, Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokesperson Travis Duncan said in an email. The agency declined to make a person available for an interview ahead of the new law’s implementation.

Once the class is passed, a firearm dealer can then sell a covered gun to a prospective buyer.

Ray Elliott, president of the Colorado State Shooting Association, a gun-rights group, argued SB3 de facto went into effect days ahead of the law’s stated effective date of Aug. 1. People need to pass the three-day waiting period and a background check to accept possession of a gun; if they waited until a day or two before the effective date, they’d still need to go through the training course — and the hundreds of dollars that can cost, plus the two days of classes — before they could acquire their new gun.

In some cases, it¶¶Òőap not clear whether every county has an available trainer, and different sheriff’s offices have been rolling out procedures for their role in the new law at different paces, Elliott said.

A posted on Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s website, for example, only specifies trainers in 47 counties, though some advertise as being available statewide and instructors aren’t limited to just the counties they list.

“People wanting to buy firearms are extremely upset over what’s going to happen now,” Elliott said, noting that the new training and eligibility requirements could potentially double the cost of buying a covered firearm. “I think you’re going to have an uproar. And it’s already beginning.”

His group has also sued the state over the law, arguing it violates the Second Amendment. He said his lawyers are watching for access issues to the eligibility cards and classes in preparation for seeking an injunction to stop the law from being enforced, though that decision won’t be made until next week, he said.

“A right delayed is a right denied,” Elliott said. “Before you put this into effect, it’s up to you to have the processes and procedures in place.”

Sgt. Shea Haney, a spokesperson for the Adams County Sheriff’s Office, said his agency has been working to issue eligibility cards ahead of the Aug. 1 requirement for training. The sheriff there also hired two people to handle issuing the eligibility cards in anticipation of the demand. He said there’s been “some confusion” and “some frustration” with the new law.

“We understand the frustration folks feel any time these sort of laws come down like this,” Haney said. “People have a lot of opinions, and rightfully so, but we want to make sure people know this is not a mandate from the sheriff or Adams County. This is just something we have to comply with to help our citizens get what they need to get.”

Other sheriff’s offices are handling the rollout of SB3 differently. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, for example, was waiting until the law went into full effect before it began processing applications for the eligibility card. Spokesperson Mark Techmeyer said there’s “continuing confusion” for both law enforcement and the public about background checks. His office will not recommend background check vendors, and leaves that responsibility on applicants to find one that satisfies state requirements, he said in an email.

“(Our records staff) have also heard considerable frustration from members of the public regarding the legislation,” Techmeyer said in a statement. “The Sheriff’s Office did not create the law, but we are prepared to fulfill our responsibilities under it and will conduct the required reviews with due diligence.”

‘We all agree training is essential’

On the training side, firearm instructor Alicia Garcia said she and her partner at have been trying to rejigger their schedule to account for the normal groups looking for ongoing training or for concealed carry permits and the people who now need these new classes.

And, despite potentially reaping financial benefits from the extra work, she has philosophical problems with the requirement. Garcia has previously sued the state over its three-day waiting period for firearms.

She worried the new class requirement will make people think of firearm training as a box to check, not a part of responsible gun ownership. She would rather the state fund free gun safety and de-escalation training.

The prescribed curriculum also limits instructors and locks them into some “archaic” thinking around gun safety, she said. As one example, she disagreed with the mandated characterization of “accidental discharges.” There are no accidents with guns, Garcia said, only negligence around the tool and its use — a subtle but important reframing to her.

“We all agree training is essential,” Garcia said. “We all want people to make firearms training, firearm safety, a defensive mindset, and things of that nature, a priority in life. We just don’t believe it should be forced on you.”

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City licensing officials last week moved to shut down Ultra Lounge East, at 9755 E. Hampden Ave., after the July 20 mass shooting at the club, alleging that the property has seen three violent events in the past five months and that its owner, Dionte Wilkins, did not hold the proper licenses to run the establishment. The city’s Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection on Wednesday ordered Ultra Lounge East to close immediately.

Wilkins on Monday said he would not seek to reopen the club. He spoke during a press conference at Brother Jeff’s Cultural Center on Welton Street, where a number of anti-violence advocates and community members gathered to address the mass shooting and call for an end to such violence.

Wilkins said that he was at the club when the shooting happened just after midnight on July 20, and that he ran for cover “just like everyone else did.”

“It was a crazy scene, out-of-nowhere situation,” he said, joining with several other speakers to call for gun violence to stop, particularly in Denver’s Black community.

Denver police believe that at least two shooters fired 66 shots during the shooting at the club, and that the violence was a continuation of a dispute that began earlier in the day during an event in Aurora that was billed as a community water fight with games, food and giveaways. Aurora police responded to that event at Del Mar Park around 7 p.m. for several fights. They issued three summonses and made one arrest.

That earlier conflict reignited at Ultra Lounge East, where Wilkins hosted an afterparty for the community water fight, investigators believe. Denver police have not announced any arrests in the shooting.

“Which means that there is someone in our community that has perpetrated the unbelievable, very heinous act of violence in our community,” Brother Jeff Fard said Monday. “No one goes to a venue expecting that they’re not going to come home, or that they’re going to be hurt or injured.”

The shooting at the club came amid a jump in violence along that stretch of E. Hampden Avenue, which has experienced five homicides, including a 47-year-old man who was beaten to death outside the club in March, and 11 people shot in the past seven months.

Lawrence Goshon, a violence prevention specialist at Denver Youth Program, said no one should bring a gun to a nightclub. He called on community members to tone down threatening talk.

“If one person takes their gun to the club, it makes everybody feel unsafe,” he said. “So that makes another person take their gun to the club. If you’re saying you’re gonna shoot if you see somebody, that means everybody else is going to be ready to shoot. So it’s not just about the shooters — it is about the words we use, too.”

The driver of a blue Ford F-150 pulled into the parking lot at Columbine High School shortly after 10:30 p.m. Saturday, according to a news release from the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office. Paramedics took his injured passenger, 23-year-old Andrew Bott, to the hospital, where he later died.

Bott was hit when someone fired multiple times at the Ford, the driver told deputies. As of Monday, the driver had not yet been publicly identified.

Investigators believe the fatal shooting is related to an earlier hit-and-run in Littleton, where a blue Ford F-150 reportedly struck several vehicles near South Santa Fe Drive and West Belleview Avenue and fled the scene, according to the .

The hit-and-run happened just minutes before the shooting was reported, sheriff’s officials said.

One of the hit-and-run victims called police to report he was following the Ford, sheriff’s officials said. Police told him to stop following the vehicle and issued a “be on the lookout” alert to nearby law enforcement for the Ford.

Sheriff’s officials did not answer questions about whether that driver was being investigated as a suspect in the shooting.

The shooting happened near Grant Ranch Boulevard and West Bowles Avenue, roughly 3 miles away from the initial hit-and-run, according to the sheriff’s office.

Investigators are asking anyone who traveled along West Bowles Avenue between South Santa Fe Drive and Grant Ranch Boulevard between 10:25 p.m. and 10:35 p.m. on Saturday to contact investigators at 303-271-5612 or by email at jcsocrimetips@jeffco.us.

Drivers with dash cameras and residents and businesses along the corridor are also asked to review their surveillance video to see whether it captured any part of the incident.

As of Monday afternoon, no arrest had been made, according to the sheriff’s office.

Two people were interviewed Sunday night while investigators executed a search warrant at a Highlands Ranch home, officials said, but additional information about that search was not available.

This is a developing story and may be updated.