Bond reduced to $250K for suspect in Highlands Ranch Main Event shooting
Crowley-Sander's bond criteria for release includes GPS monitoring, no contact with victims.
The suspected shooter who opened fire inside the crowded Highlands Ranch Main Event on Feb. 8 appeared in court Monday in a successful attempt to reduce her bond amount.
Nevaeha Crowley-Sanders, 23, wearing an orange Douglas County Sheriff’s Office inmate jumpsuit, had asked that her bond amount be reduced from $1 million to $100,000.
She faces a first-degree attempted murder charge and is set for an arraignment hearing on July 28.
Crowley-Sanders is accused of entering a crowded Main Event arcade and opening fire, striking and injuring another woman. Meanwhile, outside, a Douglas County Sheriff’s deputy shot and killed Jalin Seabron, 23, who prosecutors said was an accomplice to Crowley-Sanders.
On Monday, Judge Elizabeth Volz ruled, based on certain criteria, to reduce Crowley-Sander’s bond to $250,000, which her or the family can pay 10% of to secure her release.
Douglas County has held Crowley-Sanders on bond since the shooting on Feb. 8.
“I’ve been away from my son for three months and now he suffers from separation anxiety. My family is everything to me,” an emotional Crowley-Sanders said during her testimony on Monday.
Upon release, she said, “I would be getting back to work again on my education and career,” vowing to adhere to local laws.
Prosecutors argued that the defendant allegedly opening fire inside a public venue should be enough to prompt public safety concerns, and they requested a non-monetary condition to her bond.
Volz ruled Crowley-Sanders can’t go near the Main Event, be in contact with any of the victims, and must wear a GPS tracker.
“She’s a nursing student. She is a working person in this town. She has never been in trouble before, and this community and the world has everything to gain by her release,” family members of Crowley-Sanders said after the bond reconsideration hearing.
Chaos ensued inside Main Event
As previously reported, a 911 call at around 11:47 p.m. on Feb. 8 reported several shots fired inside the Main Event, a Highlands Ranch entertainment center with bowling, pool and an arcade.
Inside the building, Crowley-Sanders was seen entering the women’s bathroom along with Niyonii Crowley-Sanders, 21, where a fight ensued between the 23-year-old and a former high school classmate, according to witnesses cited in arrest affidavits.
During the fight, Crowley-Sanders dropped a gun out of her purse, then pointed it and shot toward several women in the bathroom, hitting a purse one woman was carrying, before leaving and firing more rounds in the crowded entertainment venue and shooting another woman, according to the arrest documents.
Employees watched bullets punch through the office’s walls, which was next to the bathroom, according to the documents.
One affidavit detailed there were more than 60 customers inside the entertainment center and many were seen running away from gunfire, some onto bowling lanes. Some hid under tables. Crowley-Sanders allegedly shot in “various directions of people running away from the gunshots,” the affidavit said.
Some bullets had penetrated the drywall between where patrons were sitting in a restaurant, authorities added.
The woman who survived the shooting sustained three gunshot wounds to the leg and another to the back.





