The crash happened near Exit 97A for McCulley, the .

It’s unclear how many vehicles were involved in the crash or whether it was the tanker that rolled.

Northbound I-25 was closed between exit 91 for Stem Beach and Exit 102 for Eagleridge Boulevard in Pueblo until roughly 6 a.m. Wednesday, according to CDOT officials. Southbound I-25 was also closed on Tuesday at Exit 99B for 13th Street but had reopened by Wednesday morning.

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The 16-year-old girl was last seen Friday, . State investigators believe the girl was taken by a 15-year-old boy and said the two were likely in the area of Agram and Bohmen avenues in Pueblo.

Officials said the girl was found safe in a 7:27 a.m. update.

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An unidentified Pueblo officer attempted to pull over a white Dodge Dart at E. Abriendo and Jones avenues, near Interstate 25, shortly after 9 p.m. Sunday, according to a from the police department.

The Dodge driver refused to yield, turned around and drove toward the Pueblo officer, police said in the release.

The officer repeatedly ordered the driver to stop, but she drove into a marked police car and a separate parked vehicle, police said. That’s when shots were fired and the driver fled the scene.

Police were searching Monday for 39-year-old Cassandra Lake, who investigators believe was injured. The Dodge was found the night before, under a tarp in the back of a burned-down Pueblo residence in the 1800 block of E. Routt Avenue, police said.

That block is just 1/5 mile away from the intersection where the shooting happened.

No Pueblo officers or other bystanders were injured, police said.

Anyone with information on Lake or her whereabouts is asked to contact the Pueblo Police Department at 719-553-2502.

The 10th Judicial District Critical Incident Response Team will investigate the shooting.

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The crash closed I-25 at exit 102 for Eagleridge Boulevard and exit 99A for Colorado 96 in Pueblo, according to the .

Southbound lanes were reopened as of 11:20 a.m.

Additional information about the fatal crash or the pedestrian was not available Wednesday morning.

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Pueblo officers responded to reports of a robbery in the 1100 block of Bonforte Boulevard just after 8 a.m. Sunday, according to a news release from the police department.

Officers found a man and a vehicle matching the robbery suspect’s description about two miles away from the initial robbery, near East Eighth Street and North Glendale Avenue, police said in the release. The suspect led police on a chase down Eighth Street, where he eventually crashed in the 700 block.

The man, who has not been publicly identified, pulled out a knife after the crash and didn’t comply with officers’ commands to drop the weapon, according to the release.

That’s when he was shot, police said. It’s unclear how many officers shot the man, how many times he was shot and where he was injured.

After being shot, the man stabbed himself an unknown number of times, according to the Pueblo Police Department. Officers used tasers to subdue and disarm him.

Police said multiple officers on scene provided medical aid after the man was disarmed, and paramedics took him to the hospital, where he later died from his injuries.

The Fremont County Coroner — who is acting coroner in Pueblo County after former county coroner Brian Cotter resigned amid the investigation into bodies discovered hidden within his mortuary — will identify the man at a later date.

The coroner will also release the suspect’s cause and manner of death, including whether he died from the gunshot or stab wounds.

Police said the 10th Judicial Critical Incident Response Team will investigate the officers’ use of force. None of the officers involved has been identified.

One prison employee and two suspects were wounded in the shootout, which happened around 2:40 a.m. July 10, Pueblo police spokeswoman Bianca Hicks said.

The five prison employees were hanging out after 2 a.m. in the skatepark in Pueblo’s at 800 Goodnight Ave. after the group left work at the near Cañon City.

They were skating, throwing a football around and “doing some other activities,” she said, noting that their presence in the park violated the area’s curfew. Then, a group of five suspects pulled up and attempted a carjacking, Hicks said.

At least one suspect shot at the correctional employees during the attempted carjacking and at least one of the prison employees returned fire, Hicks said.

Investigators found 70 shell casings at the scene, she said.

“Ultimately, what we ended up having was a bit of a shootout between the two groups,” she said.

Hicks said she did not know the extent of the injuries to the Department of Corrections employee or to the two suspects who were shot. One of the wounded suspects was an adult and the other was a juvenile, she said. Police were alerted to the shooting when the three victims arrived at two separate local hospitals, she said.

“The victims actually ended up taking the injured suspect to the local hospital,” Hicks said.

Police have identified some of the suspects and are working to identify the other people involved in the attempted carjacking, she said. She declined to release their names publicly and cited the ongoing investigation.

The district attorney’s office will make decisions about charges in the shootout and whether the prison employees acted in self-defense, Hicks said.

Christian Andrade, a spokesman for the Colorado Department of Corrections, confirmed that staff members were involved in the shooting and said no employees had been placed on administrative leave. He declined to provide additional information and directed inquiries to the Pueblo Police Department.

The early-morning shootout happened on the same day that off-duty two staff members at the, a prison in Cañon City, were killed in a crash in Pueblo West at 1:58 a.m., according to .

Investigators in that case were considering whether excessive speed and intoxication contributed to the crash, the newspaper reported.

Updated 3:11 p.m. July 17, 2025: This story was updated to correct inaccurate information provided by the Pueblo Police Department about who was injured in the shootout. 

Police were called to the 100 block of Glen Royal Drive in south Pueblo at 11:44 a.m. when someone reported a man was making threats to harm members of his family, the Pueblo Police Department said in a news release.

Officers could see he had a gun, and one officer shot him after the man did not follow orders to drop the weapon. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

No officers or bystanders were injured in the shooting, police officials said.

The will investigate the shooting, and the man will be identified by the Pueblo County Coroner’s Office.

The girl has brown hair with blonde highlights. She has brown eyes, is 5 feet, 2 inches tall and weighs 130 pounds. She was last seen wearing a gray sweatshirt and black pants.

Police said the teen was in a 2005 blue Toyota Sienna that had Colorado license plates of CJKJ67 and was near Colorado Springs.

Anyone with information can call 911 or the Pueblo Police Department at 719-553-2502.

CBI Endangered Missing Alert
ACTIVATION
Isabella Young, a 15-yoa Hispanic female last seen July 3rd, 2025, 7:30 p.m. near the 2400 block of Alma Avenue in Pueblo, CO. Officers have concerns for her safety.
If seen, please call 911 or the Pueblo Police Department at 719-553-2502.

— CBI (@CBI_Colorado)

Updated at 6:08 to add description of a vehicle the girl was last seen in.

Detectives with the Pueblo Police Department, along with the Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office’s Special Investigation Narcotics Unit, carried out a joint operation to combat the distribution and sale of illegal fireworks.

As part of the operation, detectives purchased illegal fireworks from underground sellers in various residential areas in the county.

Detectives obtained a search warrant and seized more than 2,000 pounds of illegal fireworks at one residence. They also discovered that homemade fireworks were being made and sold at one of the homes in the county.

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A 23-year-old man was shot twice as he fled from deputies, and his 42-year-old passenger was also injured when deputies later flipped the fleeing vehicle on a state highway, according to the Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office.

Pueblo County deputies responded to the gas station in the 31900 block of Colorado 96 just after 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, when an employee reported a suspicious vehicle in the parking lot, according to a news release from the .

A customer told the gas station employee that a man approached him in the parking lot asking for money, according to an .

When the customer didn’t have any cash, the man threatened to rob the next customer who came into the store, sheriff’s officials said.

Deputies tried to talk to the two people in the gold Ford Explorer when they arrived, but the suspect drove off, hitting two patrol cars on his way out, sheriff’s officials said in the release.

That’s when one unidentified deputy shot at the suspect vehicle, , sheriff’s officials said.

One deputy inside the patrol car was injured in the crash, sheriff’s officials said. As of Wednesday afternoon, he had been released from the hospital.

The suspect then fled westbound on Colorado 96 until deputies hit the car about four miles later, forcing it to roll, according to the sheriff’s office.

The driver and passenger are both expected to survive, sheriff’s officials said.

Sheriff’s officials said the deputies’ use of force will be investigated by the 10th Judicial District Critical Incident Response Team, led by the Pueblo Police Department. The deputy who fired his weapon has been placed on paid administrative leave.