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 NicolĂĄs 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 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. 

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.

Herman Antonio Sisneros, 41, called 911 at 11:38 a.m. Sunday, according to the affidavit. He told dispatchers that he needed help, but refused to explain until officers arrived.

A Supported Team Assisted Response, or STAR, vehicle with two mental health clinicians was dispatched to the home in the 1500 block of South Xavier Street. The clinician told dispatchers shortly before 2 p.m. that the caller’s wife was dead in the backyard and that Sisneros refused to let them check on her, police wrote in the affidavit.

Sisneros told the clinicians that there were children in the house whom he had given medication to, and that “he had to do what he did to protect the world,” the affidavit stated. The clinicians were able to check on the children, who did not appear injured, according to the document.

When , they found the woman, 39-year-old Angelica Sisneros, dead with a wound to her abdomen, police said. She was eight months pregnant, according to the affidavit.

Investigators noticed flies around the woman’s mouth and a “bad smell,” leading officers to believe she had been there for some time, according to the affidavit.

Officers had responded to the house the day before for a domestic disturbance, after which Herman Sisneros left alone, neighbors told police, according to the affidavit. When he returned home that evening, a neighbor noticed there were blood droplets in the front yard near where the car was parked, and possibly a trail of blood toward the home’s back fence, according to the affidavit.

Several children younger than 10 years old were taken from the home, police said in the affidavit.

The children told officers that Herman Sisneros had physically and verbally abused their mother, Angelica, police said. One child said the mother had told the children the night before that Herman Sisneros was going to kill her, and another said that “dad hit mom in the stomach with a toy.”

It¶¶Òőap unknown whether Angelica Sisneros was shot or injured with another object. The Denver Office of the Medical Examiner will determine the cause and manner of her death.

Herman Sisneros told police that he met his wife while in prison and that they had been married for about 10 years, the affidavit stated.

“He said that he felt she was unfaithful,” police stated in the affidavit. “He felt she was trying to get the police to kill him.”

As of Thursday afternoon, Herman Sisneros remained in custody at Denver’s Downtown Detention Center. He faces felony charges of first-degree murder and unlawful termination of a pregnancy and four misdemeanor counts of negligent child abuse, court records show.

He is next scheduled to appear in court on Friday for an advisement hearing, according to court records.

Investigators believe Christopher Nabors confronted the boys, who are 12 and 14 years old, after he found them either breaking into or trying to steal his vehicle in the 4300 block of North Pecos Street on June 30.

The boys, who have not been publicly identified because they are juveniles, were arrested by Denver Police Department officers on July 1 after police spotted them in a stolen vehicle and they fled when officers tried to pull them over.

Denver police also accused the 14-year-old of being involved with a shooting about 15 minutes before the Sunnyside shooting, when the teen and two other juveniles shot a fourth juvenile near Park Avenue and East 20th Avenue. The juvenile victim was injured but survived, agency officials said.

Detectives are still investigating a homicide that happened under the same circumstances in the 15000 block of East Olmsted Drive in the early hours of June 24.

Jacob Lopez, 19, was killed in that shooting, according to the Denver Office of the Medical Examiner.

Following the deaths of Nabors and Lopez, Denver police warned the public against confronting would-be car thieves.

“We offer this warning, in no way to shame the victims for their attempts to protect their vehicles, but to bring awareness to this disturbing trend and to encourage everyone to call 911 if they see something suspicious or a crime in progress,” Chief Ron Thomas said in a statement on July 2. “The brazen actions of these suspects go against the fiber of our community, and our investigations teams are working to identify and arrest them.”

The Denver Police Department in the 3800 block of Arizona Avenue at 10:18 p.m. Monday.

When officers arrived, they found one man who died from his injuries at the scene, police said. He will be identified by the Denver Office of the Medical Examiner.

Additional information about the shooting, including whether a suspect had been identified or arrested, was not immediately available on Tuesday.

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

This is a developing story and may be updated.

Denver officers responded to an assault at 1300 Larimer Street, in a park area east of the intersection of North Speer Boulevard and Larimer Street, at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, according to a .

When they arrived, officers found an unresponsive man, police said. Paramedics took the man to the hospital with unspecified injuries, where he later died. He will be identified by the Denver Office of the Medical Examiner.

Edgardo Jimenez-Alvarad, 30, was arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder in the man’s death, . Police arrested him near 14th and Champa streets at about 6:45 p.m. Saturday, according to the release.

Information about the man’s injuries and cause of death, or about the events leading up to the assault, was not available on Sunday.

This is a developing story and may be updated.

Denver police officers responded to the stabbing in the 1300 block of Lowell Boulevard, between West 13th Avenue and West 14th Avenue, at 2:24 p.m. Sunday, a spokesperson for the department said.

Paramedics took three people to the hospital, where one woman later died, police said in a 6:26 p.m. update. She will be identified by the Denver Office of the Medical Examiner.

Robert Tafoya was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and first-degree assault, according to . As of Sunday afternoon, he was being held in Denver’s Downtown Detention Center.

The block where the stabbing happened is in Denver’s West Colfax neighborhood neighborhood, near the Lakewood Gulch.

Police said Tafoya and the victims knew each other, but did not specify the nature of their relationship.

Additional information about the stabbing was not immediately available on Sunday.

This is a developing story and may be updated.

Kevin Bailey was reported missing on June 12 after leaving the Woodland Estates Senior Living Center, 2500 S. Roslyn St., sheriff’s officials said.

Bailey told a senior center employee that he wanted to ride the bus and visit friends, according to the sheriff’s office. The man also told his family that he was riding a bus and looking for work before he disappeared.

Deputies, the Arapahoe Rescue Patrol and two search-and-rescue dogs searched Denver’s Central Park area for two days in late June, sheriff’s officials said. On June 26, the search team found a man’s body in a creek.

The Denver Office of the Medical Examiner identified the body as Bailey, Arapahoe County sheriff’s officials said.

Additional information about Bailey’s death was not immediately available.

This is a developing story and may be updated.

The in the 4300 block of North Pecos Street at 10:18 p.m. Tuesday. Paramedics took one man who had been shot to the hospital, where he later died, police said.

As of Wednesday morning, no suspects had been publicly identified and information about the events leading up to the shooting was not available.

The man killed in the shooting will be identified by the Denver Office of the Medical Examiner at a later date.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 719-913-7867.

Denver police officers responded to two other shootings overnight — one in the and one in the . One person was injured in each of the shootings, but additional information about the incidents was not available.

This is a developing story and may be updated.